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Brad Pitt options The Imperfectionists; the Association of Ghostwriters launches; E. M. Forester stopped writing novels because of sex; Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos compares printed books to horses; and other news.
A collection of first-edition books may sell for twenty million
dollars at auction; Amazon is preparing a new version of the Kindle; Walt Whitman's meteors were real after all; the Calabash literary festival goes off without a hitch despite major violence in Kingston; and other news.
June is National Audiobook Month; North America's oldest gay bookstore is on the brink of closure; Jonathan Karp replaces David Rosenthal as head of Simon & Schuster's adult trade division; the New Yorker's "20 under 40" list is analyzed by the New York Times; and other news.
Liu Xiaobo is moved to a prison in Liaoning, China; Henning Mankell is released by Israeli authorities; the Paris Review launches a daily blog; a literary novelist rakes in the cash with a vampire trilogy; and other news.
Swedish author Henning Mankell is detained in Israel; Dave Eggers takes 826 Valencia to London; the winners of the Lambda Literary Awards are announced; the secret Vatican archives are secret no more; and other news.
The author of Drugstore Cowboy is arrested for (shocker!) allegedly stealing drugs from a pharmacy; Barnes & Noble launches an iPad app; all Target stores are set to sell the Kindle; novelist Jennifer Belle pays forty actresses to read her book in public; and other news.
The Poetry Foundation releases an iPhone app; Burmese poet Saw Wei is released from prison; Joe McGinniss moves in next door to Sarah Palin; children as young as seven are more likely to own a mobile phone than a book; and other news.
New software can detect sarcasm in writing; Barbara Streisand kicks off BEA with Gayle King; ABA announces a partnership with Google; David Remnick is honored at the Author's Guild's annual gala; and other news.
Book sales increased over 16 percent in March; BEA kicks off today in New York City; To Kill a Mockingbird turns fifty; Poetry wins Best Screenplay at Cannes; and other news.
Poets for Living Waters announces a call for poems in response to the oil spill; Borders gets a new chairman; Apple is selling more iPads than Macs; Junot Díaz is elected to the Pulitzer board; and other news.
Melville House celebrates the best and worst book trailers; Ian McEwan responds to the chilly reception his new novel received from American readers; Open Road announces its first original e-book release; Maya Angelou celebrates her eighty-second birthday; and other news.
Steve Martin will publish a new novel this fall; Kay Ryan completes her two-year term as poet laureate; Barnes & Noble enters the self-publishing business; a retired theater professor memorizes all ten thousand lines of Paradise Lost; and other news.
The Wimbledon tennis tournament gets a poet-in-residence; Guns N' Roses releases a vook; the Belarussian PEN Center president is detained by police; Amazon announces a second publishing imprint; and other news.
Anne Rice puts her southern California hom on the market; Obama is paid $500,000 for a young adult edition of Dreams From My Father; a ninety-eight-year-old woman in Japan self-publishes a poetry best-seller; James Frey is a hit in France; and other news.
An online charity auction has raised more than $53,000 for Tennessee flood victims; the Russian government has launched an ad campaign to promote reading; Verizon and Google are working on a new tablet; Barnes & Noble is giving away e-books to Nook owners; and
other news.
The ABA and ABC announce a possible merger; Wikipedia launches a custom book-making feature; the New York Public Library gets some help from a skateboarding dog; an Irish author dies in the Libyan plane crash; and other news.
Matt Damon stars in the latest Philip K. Dick adaptation; 2010 has been a great year for poetry from university presses; the annual Dakota Cowboy Poetry Gathering kicks off later this month; PCWorld takes a closer look at Google Editions; and other news.
Truman Capote's Brooklyn residence is up for sale; blind poet Tato Laviera finds a home; Quirk Books moves to Random House; the New Yorker will publish a list of the best twenty writers under forty; and other news.
Google Editions reportedly has the backing of nearly all U.S. publishers; an Australian physicist finds a ninety-nine-year-old error in the Oxford English Dictionary; New Jersey scholars champion poetry therapy; a German publisher finds a new use for cigarette vending machines; and other news.
Borders enters the e-reader market; reports of censorship at the Tehran
Book Fair emerge; Jamaica's Calabash Literary Festival prepares to
celebrate ten years; the Guardian explores the globalization of
English; and other news.
Barnes & Noble is sued by one of its investors; a film adaptation of Kerouac's On the Road is set to film this summer; two literary festivals close in Jerusalem; Open Road starts a Twitter account for William Styron; and other news.
A rock band of academics releases a literature-themed album; Macmillan admits to bribing a Sudanese official over a publishing contract; a San Francisco nonprofit launches an initiative to serve visually impaired readers; and other news.
HarperCollins reports a boost in profits; the Los Angeles Public Library faces major budget cuts; Google announces plans to sell digital books; a candidate for U.K. prime minister attempts to trade on his love of Samuel Beckett; and other news.
Apple reports selling a milllion iPads; Kent State offers Peace Stanzas on the fortieth anniversary of its campus shootings; Nikki Giovanni pledges her copyrights to Virginia Tech; a Portland, Oregon, bookstore and all its contents are destroyed by a fire; and other news.
Applications for the Oxford Professor of Poetry post close this week; a new Allen Ginsberg photography exhibit opens at the National Gallery of Art; an alleged Catcher in the Rye sequel gets another day in court; and other news.
