Jack White Launches Third Man Press, Some Consumers Avoiding Amazon, and More
Amazon shushes authors; Sweetness #9 receives the “Colbert Bump”; the Baffler opens archives online; and other news.
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From the Magazine
Authors Debate Poetry’s Relevance, Publishing Mergers in 2014, and More
BitLit partners with HarperCollins; Julia Turner named editor in chief of Slate; the burdens placed upon writers of color in academia; and other news.
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Lisa Lucas Named Guernica Publisher, Warner Bros. Seeks Lawsuit Dismissal, and More
Booksellers launch drive for immigrant children; Middle Eastern entrepreneur hawks banned books; student discovers lost photograph of Alfred Lord Tennyson; and other news.
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The Brains of Creative Writers, Writer's Digest Ends Partnership with Author Solutions, and More
Rutgers appoints poet A. Van Jordan to faculty; BookStats discontinues services; NYPL to potentially restructure its board; and other news.
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Yale Receives Grant for Poetry Chair, Contest Judge on Poetry's "Irrelevance," and More
Illinois legislature revives “Amazon tax”; an open letter to Librarian of Congress James Billington; the state of Washington’s new poet laureate; and other news.
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Maya Angelou Dies at 86, Amazon Breaks Silence on Hachette Dispute, and More
BookExpo America begins amid charges of lack of diversity; Gillian Flynn takes on Hamlet; The Poetry Archive reboots; and other news.
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Write A House Program Accepting Applications, Book Vending Machines, and More
Ways to make Barnes & Noble turn a larger profit; American classics removed from British schools; new fiction by veterans; and other news.
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A Profile of Roxane Gay
In her new novel, An Untamed State; her essay collection, Bad Feminist, forthcoming in August; and her memoir, Hunger, slated for publication in 2016, Roxane Gay offers a joyous, complicated, even radically nuanced view of women.
Harper Lee Permits To Kill a Mockingbird E-book, the Search for Miguel de Cervantes, and More
Bear Grylls to pen thrillers; “ambush poetry” in Las Vegas; the trouble with labeling women’s writing; and other news.
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Elmore Leonard’s Detroit, Lee Boudreaux Joins Little, Brown, and More
Green Apple Books saves a San Francisco video store; revisiting the Salman Rushdie fatwa; modeling small businesses after independent booksellers; and other news.
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