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Jonathan Lethem and Jennifer Egan visit Occupy Wall Street in New York City; Political analyst Rachel Maddow cites Herman Cain's misuse of poetry; a 1960 letter to a fan written by Harper Lee will be auctioned today; and other news.
Today, Barnes & Noble unveiled its Nook Tablet; Philip Levine talks about his least favorite jobs; producer Scott Rudin has optioned film rights to Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Marriage Plot; and other news.
Terror suspects arrested this week reportedly were inspired by a manuscript posted online; the fate of St. Mark's Bookshop in New York City seems finally to be resolved; Bob Vila tours Edith Wharton's restored Berkshire retreat; and other news.
A closer look at Amazon Publishing's numbers; Elizabeth Bishop was also a painter, and a book of her visual art has been published; Salmon Rushdie weighs in on Kim Kardashian; and other news.
Ragip Zarakolu, a publisher and free-speech activist, has been imprisoned by the Turkish government; Novelist Hisham Matar will return to Libya to find his father, long imprisoned by the Qaddafi regime; how to save thousands of dollars on rare books; and other news.
Today marks the beginning of National Novel Writing Month; New Hampshire's RiverRun Bookstore is in danger of closing; Pauline Kael's rivalry with Joan Didion; and other news.
The inspired world of Steve Jobs, through the eyes of his novelist sister; Ireland elects a poet president; Barnes and Noble expands e-book real estate; T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx, penpals; and other news.
Writers from the San Francisco Bay area have signed a petition denouncing Oakland's recent actions toward protestors; literary agent Ira Silverberg will be the new literature director of the National Endowment for the Arts; Philip K. Dick's estate has filed a lawsuit against the makers of the film The Adjustment Bureau; and other news.
E-bookseller Kobo will create a publishing division; the Chicago Tribune is planning a standalone books section; writers Walter Kirn, Steve Martin, Rita Dove, and Amy Tan recently met at a Chinese restaurant in New York City to play poker; and other news.
Melville House publisher, Dennis Johnson, adds his voice to the ongoing debate over the future of publishing; Occupy Wall Street has created a poetry anthology; Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison has written a new play, Desdemona, that speaks to Shakespeare's Othello; and other news.
Writer Paul Malmont is promoting a holiday book drive to send reading material to troops; Africa's most influential celebrity is novelist Chinua Achebe; novelist Shalom Auslander solicits John Hodgman, Sarah Vowell, and Ira Glass for a huge favor; and other news.
Frieda Hughes, the daughter of Sylvia Plath and the late British poet Ted Hughes, writes of her mother's drawings; novelist Curtis Sittenfeld interviews Lan Samantha Chang, the director of the famed Iowa Writers’ Workshop; literary journal n+1 has created a new publication, Occupy; and other news.
Algonquin Books expands; a sober look at the state of the publishing industry; writer José Manuel Prieto discusses the American authors he read as a child in Cuba; and other news.
Three major publishers announced they've added features that allow authors to access book sales data directly; today is National Day on Writing; novelist Adam Foulds discusses the nuances of using description; and other news.
Author Naomi Wolf was arrested last night at an Occupy Wall Street protest; Denis Leary's hosting Ploughshares upcoming fortieth anniversary gala; Hunter S. Thompson's correspondence; and other news.
Writers in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement have launched a website; the Appalachian Prison Book Project has lost its funding; Columbia professor James Shapiro has some choice items to say about Anonymous, the new Roland Emmerich film; and other news.
Adult hardcover book sales gained 33 percent in July; Harper Perennial attempts to create a brand that offers modest advances for first books, cool young writers, and a cutting-edge aesthetic; despite Anne Sexton's success publishing poems, magazine fiction editors did not want her stories; and other news.
A mass protest planned for Phoenix, Arizona, this Saturday, has as its spokesperson a spoken word poet; Books-a-Million joins Barnes & Noble in removing DC Comics titles from their shelves; Hemingway's correspondence; and other news.
Former Borders employees plan to open a new bookstore; Charles Frazier on the writing of Cold Mountain (and saving his wife from a bear); novelist Jami Attenberg reveals her obsession with a neighborhood coffee shop's free bookshelf; and other news.
A patent lawsuit has been filed against Amazon over their new Kindle Fire; Joseph Brodsky's must-read book of essays; Meghan O’Rourke on the George Herbert poem she turned to in times of need; and other news.
An in-depth accounting of the early relationships among David Foster Wallace's generation of writers; novelist Tony D’Souza speaks about one of the most dificult things a writer faces; poet David Orr visits the current state of performance poetry; and other news.
Barnes & Noble instructs workers to remove DC Comics books from store shelves; Flavorwire's ten poems everyone needs to read; the Guardian on the short stories of Denis Johnson; and other news.
The Writers Guild East joins the protest movement Occupy Wall Street; Perseus Books creates a new distribution division that allows authors to self-publish e-books; an excerpt from The Journals of Spalding Gray; and other news.
The Corrections is being developed as a four-year series for HBO; Jonathan Lethem's obsession with Norman Mailer; Poets Ranked By Beard Weight; and other news.
Occupy Wall Street protestors set up a lending library; a giant billboard of Jeffrey Eugenides is on display in Times Square; Don DeLillo recalls a historic game-winning homerun; and other news.
