Article Archive: News and Trends

Inspired by a 1971 novel by Richard Brautigan, the Brautigan Library collects unpublished books, creating a fantastic archive of stories unaffected by publishing trends—and a window into the minds and dreams of its contributing writers.

The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit and Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong.

The small press annually publishes four chapbooks of “formally strange or conceptually bizarre” prose. 

An author tells a fantastical story by writing it a word at a time in the snow.

The fiction writer on the twentieth anniversary of Small Beer Press and the opening of Book Moon, a bookstore in Massachusetts that she co-owns with her husband, Gavin J. Grant.

An author recommends five journals that published essays from her debut collection, Dispatches From the End of Ice.

The New Orleans press publishes four or five poetry titles a year in an eclectic range of styles.

The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Grand Union by Zadie Smith and Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout.

Unnamed Press, an L.A.–based press, aims to publish story-driven books by underrepresented or marginalized voices.