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George Whitman, famed American bookseller in Paris, has passed away at 98; Courtney Maum writes of what she's learned after attending over two hundred readings less than a year; the New York Observer examines the trend of agents trawling popular blogs for potential books; and other news.
Novelist Sabina Murray writes about the female characters in Jeffrey Eugenides's The Marriage Plot and Jonathan Franzen's Freedom; a centuries-old mystery was uncovered at West Virginia University—a love poem found pasted inside a 1561 edition of Chaucer; twenty-five things writers should know about rejection; and other news.
Author Richard Russo weighs in on Amazon's new Price Check app; Bill Clinton helped an independent bookstore have one of its biggest one-day sales in recent history; novelist Vanessa Veselka writes of her attempts to unionize her co-workers; and other news.
The future of poet Carl Sandburg's boyhood home is uncertain; ICM talent agency is in the process of a major restucturing; why television is supplanting film as the ideal venue for literary adaptions; and other news.
Poet Charles Bernstein discusses the Occupy Wall Street protests; New York City's Department of Health has ordered that Matilda, the Algonquin Hotel's famous lobby cat, be confined; hand-crafted dolls of famous writers; and other news.
The Department of Justice has confirmed it's looking into possible collusion over e-book pricing; poet Charles Simic reflects on his youth and age; Marilynne Robinson on American writing; and other news.
St. Martin’s Press answers plagiarism accusations over a book about Edgar Allan Poe's young bride; the Rumpus has some choice words for Amazon; Salon lists the top five books of fiction for 2011; and other news.
The New York Times details the international financing behind one of the adaptations of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas; holiday gifts for writers they will actually use; a possible Jane Austen portrait has been discovered; and other news.
The only independent bookstore in the Bronx, New York, will close this month; Rita Dove responds to Helen Vendler's review of The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry; John Jeremiah Sullivan accompanies Denis Johnson on several excursions in North Carolina, including a flytrap preserve; and other news.
A community rallies to save New Hampshire's RiverRun Books; the New York Times details a weekly meeting of the young writers who edit The New Inquiry; three titles relating to the Occupy movement are scheduled to be published; and other news.
The New York Times lists the ten best books of 2011; Deadwood creator David Milch has contracted to adapt William Faulker's works for HBO; novelist Jennifer Gilmore writes of meeting a potential birth mother; and other news.
Novelist Glen David Gold writes of Faulkner and literary relationships; Gabriel García Márquez wins a seventeen-year legal battle; Quentin Rowan, whose plagiarized novel was recently pulled from the shelves, has published a confession; and other news.
Novelist Keith Gessen details his two days held in New York City's infamous jail the Tombs; a new literary feud has developed between Niall Ferguson and Pankaj Mishra; poet John Ashbery speaks with Time; and other news.
The weekend after Thanksgiving, president Obama took his daughters to shop at an independent bookstore; poet Daisy Fried reviews Herbert Leibowitz's new William Carlos Williams biography, Something Urgent I Have to Say to You; Jack Kerouac's first novel has been published seventy years after it was written; and more.
Novelist Steve Almond writes of the actions of law enforcement officers at UC Davis and elsewhere; a doll-sized manuscript handwritten by Charlotte Brontë has been discovered; the best literature of family dysfunction; and other news.
The New York Times has listed its 100 Notable Books of 2011; Consumer Reports compares a few of the latest e-readers; the Literary Review's annual Bad Sex in Literature Award has been announced; and other news.
Former United States Poet Laureate Robert Hass writes of his experience confronting police at Occupy protests on Berkeley's campus; Granta has animated an imaginary zombie movie mentioned in a Roberto Bolaño story; the harshest author rejection letters of all time; and other news.
Novelist Keith Gessen was arrested yesterday at Occupy Wall Street; critic James Wood adds his voice to the Jonathan Lethem kerfluffle; Henri Cole speaks about his new book of poems; and other news.
The end of Moammar Kadafi's rule in Libya also marked an end to censorship; Occupy Wall Street library's newly-donated books were seized by the NYPD (again); novelist Neil Gaiman has forever secured his place in the cultural firmament—this Sunday, he'll appear on The Simpsons; and other news.
Bookstore sales rose 7 percent in September; novelist Paul Auster to speak at historic Green-Wood cemetery; a glimpse at the personal libraries of several authors, including Claire Messud, Gary Shteyngart, and Junot Díaz; and other news.
This morning, Mayor Bloomberg and the NYPD evicted Occupy Wall Street protestors encamped at Zuccotti Park, reportedly destroying the 5,554-book library; Walter Isaacson's biography details the relationship between Steve Jobs and novelist Jennifer Egan; diary of a Paris Review editor; and other news.
Police at University of California in Berkeley reportedly injured protesting students and professors, including poet Geoffrey O'Brien and former poet laureate Robert Hass; Leora Skolkin-Smith details what kept her inspired in the thirty years it took to publish her novel, Hystera; Q. R. Markham, whose plagiarized novel was yanked from shelves, offers an apology; and other news.
Glyn Maxwell explains how World War I "turned British poetry from Keatsian lyricism to raw, aghast reportage"; Jonathan Lethem laments a review of his novel by critic James Wood; how to legally use one of Jim Henson's Muppets in a book trailer; and other news.
Japanese company Rakuten will purchase Canadian e-book vendor Kobo; a free public reading of Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener in support of Occupy Wall Street; a self-published author has sued an Amazon reviewer for libel; and other news.
A novel, Assassin of Secrets, has been pulled from the shelves by Little, Brown after passages in the book were discovered to have been plagiarized; poet Brendan Lorber reports from the front lines of Occupy Wall Street; interactive book covers; and other news.
