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A new anthology from Haymarket Books celebrates Black Girl Magic.
A Missouri-based publisher of poetry and fiction allows authors more creative control over their books.
Library of America editorial director John Kulka on the importance of publishing classic American literature.
The first lines of a dozen new books, including The Dream of Reason by Jenny George.
The iconic Seattle literary arts organization plans for the opening of a new space for writers.
A new graphic novel out from Montreal comics publisher Drawn & Quarterly.
With publishers both large and small leading the way, literary vinyl makes a comeback.
The Tournament of Books kicks off its fourteenth year.
Julia Pierpont and Manjit Thapp’s new book features a hundred women who have changed the world.
Split This Rock’s outgoing executive director on the intersection of poetry and politics, and the organization’s upcoming festival.
Dionisia Morales on five journals that published essays from her debut collection, Homing Instincts.
A literary organization brings new life to Langston Hughes’s house in Harlem.
The first lines of a dozen new books, including Feel Free by Zadie Smith.
A London-based initiative works to collect and archive poems in endangered languages.
A small press based in Austin, Texas, and Des Moines offers a new model for submissions.
Melanie Janisse-Barlow turns the tables on a long tradition of poets finding their muse in visual art through her Poets Series project, a collection of painted portraits of poets.
In celebration of ten years, sixty-five million users, and sixty-nine million book reviews, a history of Goodreads—from its beginnings as a tool for readers to its growth into an important platform for book promotion.
Fiction writer Danielle Lazarin discusses five journals that have published her short stories, some of which appear in her debut collection, Back Talk, forthcoming from Penguin Books in February.
Poets, activists, and survivors respond to gun violence in a new anthology of poems and essays from Beacon Press.
A free online archive collects writing from more than 1,200 incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, as well as correctional officers and prison staff, from across the country.
Page One offers the first lines of a dozen new and noteworthy books, including Wild Is the Wind by Carl Phillips and No Time to Spare by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Small Press Points highlights the innovation and can-do spirit of independent presses. This issue features the Hilo, Hawai’i–based Saddle Road Press.
Merriam-Webster’s editor-at-large, Peter Sokolowski, discusses how the popular dictionary is driven by both definitions and data, and reveals the 2017 Word of the Year: feminism.
Small Press Points highlights the innovation and can-do spirit of independent presses. This issue features the Shropshire, England–based Platypus Press.
Based at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln and led by Kwame Dawes, the African Poetry Book Fund supports and celebrates pan-African poetry.