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Vermont-based vanity publisher Peter Campbell-Copp has been sentenced to jail for fraud; Scientific American examines the physiological differences between reading print or electronic texts; novelist Randy Susan Meyers discusses the pressures of social media self-promotion; and other news.
The Los Angeles Times reports e-books helped increase overall United States book sales; David Haglund explains the fabricated claim that Dostoevsky met with Charles Dickens; Wendy Francis pens a letter to an aspiring author; and other news.
Deborah Copaken Kogan details the obstacles she's encountered in her storied career as a journalist and author; Christian Science Monitor features Robert Frost's ten favorite books; the Guardian looks at the work of Kate Tempest, the first person under forty to win the Ted Hughes award for innovation in poetry; and other news.
Joshua Henkin reveals the most vulnerable moments in a man’s life; Mary Jo Bang explains the Tetris Effect; eight collages of poet Bill Knott's rejection letters; and other news.
Barnes & Noble has created a service for self-published authors—NOOK Press; Jon Tribble visits the life and work of poet Jake Adam York; Terese Svoboda details the path to her first novel; and other news.
The New York Times interviews Jason Merkoski, the leader of the team who built Amazon's first Kindle; Chilean authorities have exhumed Pablo Neruda to test his remains for poison; Anne Margaret Daniel details how F. Scott Fitzgerald reacted to the first film version of The Great Gatsby; and other news.
Publishing Perspectives looks at how bad news often brings the literary community together; David Yezzi shares his thoughts on the needs of contemporary poetry; Adelle Waldman reveals what she's gleaned by reading the Jane Austen canon; and other news.
Thessaly La Force remembers prize-winning author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who died yesterday at her home in New York City, at age eighty-five; Aryn Kyle reveals how she spent the advance on her bestselling first novel; Architectural Digest takes a behind-the-scenes tour of the sets designed for Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby; and other news.
The Associated Press drops “Illegal Immigrant” from its style book; Iain Banks announces that he has only months to live; Dave Bry highlights his own difficulties with writing memoir; and other news.
Authors, publishers, and other experts offer insight into the ever-evolving world of publishing; filmmakers are bidding on adaptation rights before books are even finished; fans can go on a cruise with Margaret Atwood; and other news.
