Jump to navigation Skip to content
Uncensoring From Here to Eternity; hot manuscripts for sale at the London Book Fair; Kate Bush gets permission to sing Ulysses after twenty years; digital piracy and the publishing industry; and other news.
Busboys and Poets launches a publishing imprint; J. K. Rowling considers e-books and $130 million; Rutgers pays Snooki more than Toni Morrison to speak at the university; the one hundredth anniversary of the New York Public Library; and other news.
The best literary hoaxes of all time; another Chinese writer is sentenced to prison for "inciting subversion of state power"; Afghani woman's rights activist Malalai Joya is finally granted a visa for a U.S. book tour; increased funding for literature in England; and other news.
A bookless library is considered in Newport Beach, California; how not to react to a negative book review; the O, Miami festival seeks to reach more than two million people with poetry; the role of poet laureates in politics; and other news.
Ron Silliman contemplates the end of his eight-year poetry blog; a fake Rahm Emanuel lands a book deal; the PEN World Voices Festival all-star lineup is announced; the role of poetry in the Taliban's war strategy; and other news.
Politics and Prose bookstore finds a buyer; literature's crises (and rallies) through the ages; Elizabeth Bennett may have listened to indie rock; Borders plans to pay bonuses; and other news.
The trouble with digitizing line breaks; dissecting the O: The Oprah Magazine poet fashion spread; Amanda Hocking strikes again; the iPad 2 sells out around the world; and other news.
The Japanese publishing industry is weathering the recent disasters and pitching in with relief efforts; Powell's Books releases a mobile app; Lawrence Ferlinghetti turned ninety-two yesterday; Amanda Hocking signs a four-book deal with St. Martin's; and other news.
More in-depth coverage of the rejected Google Books Settlement; the Best Translated Book Award finalists; Barnes & Noble can't find a buyer; the It Gets Better Project publishes a book; and other news.
Judge Chin rejects the $125 million Google Books Settlement; Lendl is back in business after a media kerfuffle; arts education alternatives to the MFA; the Blackberry Playbook steps up to challenge the iPad 2; and other news.
Amanda Hocking goes traditional for a million dollars; the tenth annual E-poetry Festival in Buffalo, New York; Microsoft sues Barnes & Noble; electronic-publishing bingo; and other news.
Today is World Poetry Day; Kwame Anthony Appiah is reelected as president of the PEN American Center; the world's first e-book library opens in China; a Brazilian pop singer gets nearly eight hundred thousand dollars to start a poetry blog; and other news.
A "book bomb" injures four people in Indonesia; Borders announces the closure of twenty-eight more stores; e-book sales jump 115 percent in January; optimism reigns at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair; and other news.
EU officials raid the offices of European publishers; Melville House donates online profits to Japan disaster relief; the long list for Australia's Miles Franklin Literary Award; three literary magazines win National Magazine Awards for Digital Media; and other news.
A group of authors is hosting an online auction to benefit Japan; the CEO of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt resigns after less than two years in the job; Wesley McNair is appointed poet laureate of Maine; James Ellroy receives the French Order of Arts and Letters; and other news.
Nine ways of understanding earthquakes through literature; the return of the London Book Fair; the opening lines of David Foster Wallace's soon-to-be-released The Pale King; Hollywood's favorite author; and other news.
Arcadia Books will feature prominently in Woody Allen's next film; a bumper crop of marijuna-themed books; Salman Rushdie tries his hand at writing for television; James Frey completes the Bible; and other news.
The future is bright again for the Los Angeles Public Library; Goodreads acquires Discovereads.com; Funny or Die is set to launch a book imprint; the Poetry Center of Chicago finds a home; and other news.
Salma Hayek announced plans to produce an animated version of Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet; an iPad 2 review roundup; some of Borders' creditors ask for their books back; O, The Oprah Magazine dedicates its April issue to poetry; and other news.
Senator Reid criticized for cowboy poetry reference; F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby house destined for demolition; editor Sonny Mehta receives lifetime achievement award; crafting poetry from celebrity fodder; and other news.
Looking at literary heroines on International Women's Day; Jane Eyre alights onscreen once again; Charlie Sheen reads his poetry; libraries get a makeover; and other news.
Problems with the portrayal of characters of color; the ten greatest poets; a publisher's limits on library lending; another top honor for Vargas Llosa; and other news.
Today is National Grammar Day; OR Books gathers the Tweets of Egyptian activists into a book; a French court dismisses a libel claim against a book review editor for a negative review he published; a C. S. Lewis translation of Virgil's Aeneid will be published next month; and other news.
PEN International condemns the arrest of writer Ye Du in China; the San Francisco Public Library hosts a speed-dating session; a five-day nonstop marathon reading of the King James Bible in Bath, England; poet Andrew Motion becomes a playwright; and other news.
Donald Hall and Harper Lee will receive National Humanities Medals; literary journal Open City is ceasing publication after twenty years; Michel Houellebecq releases a music single; Bloomsbury USA posts its best financial year ever; and other news.
