Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Between the Night and Its Music: New and Selected Poems by A. B. Spellman and The Charterhouse of Padma by Padma Viswanathan.
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The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Between the Night and Its Music: New and Selected Poems by A. B. Spellman and The Charterhouse of Padma by Padma Viswanathan.
Inspired by traditional and contemporary quilt patterns, artist Larry Clifford crafts each of his BiblioQuilts from hardcover books rescued from libraries, basements, and attics.
After years spent on frustrating, time-consuming drafts, creating visual models helped one writer to assess the current state of a manuscript, estimate a completion date, and build confidence.
The author of Thanks for This Riot, a debut story collection, introduces some of the online publications that first gave her stories a home, including American Literary Review and Okay Donkey.
Before the author of Barnflower was a writer, she was a farm kid. The memoirist shares moments from her book tour, which included meeting cows and visiting corn mazes alongside reading at local bookstores and reconnecting with friends.
The executive editor of Callaloo Literary Journal, one of the most influential publications of the African diaspora, speaks about Callaloo’s future and how the journal will continue to break new ground.
The former editorial director of Akashic Books, now an executive editor at Viking, talks about his experience moving from an indie press to one of the Big Five publishers.
For more than ten years, Meekling Press has been producing artist books, blending text and visual design to make unique literary-art objects with a playful punk sensibility.
Excerpts from Bones Worth Breaking by David Martinez, Little Seed by Wei Tchou, The Lucky Ones by Zara Chowdhary, The Exit Is the Entrance by Lydia Paar, and Come by Here by Neesha Powell-Ingabire.
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Yr Dead by Sam Sax and Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami.