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Best-selling author Alice Walker has refused an offer to publish a new Israeli edition of The Color Purple; Laura Miller explains why a filmed adaptation of the erotic bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey may not be a bad idea; the Wall Street Journal details the battle for proper grammar at the the workplace; and other news.
The New Yorker unravels the history of the early stories of Mary McCarthy, including “The Weeds,” which cast a spotlight on her troubled marriage to critic Edmund Wilson; Microsoft announced its eventual entry into the tablet market with new devices called Surface; NPR looks at the life and times of Nightwood author Djuna Barnes; and other news.
A group of writers unhappy with PublishAmerica have filed a lawsuit alleging it charges fees for services that traditional publishers perform at no cost; entrepreneur Seth Godin funded his new book on Kickstarter within three hours; George Saunders explains why Donald Antrim's The Verificationist is an underappreciated masterpiece; and other news.
Net sales for the first quarter of 2012 are down for adult hardcovers, and up for e-books; the Wall Street Journal takes a look at the strange world of fan fiction; Nathan Englander reveals his love for the international storytelling series called the Moth; and other news.
GalleyCat's recent list of self-published best sellers included SpellBound Cafe by Nora A. Roberts—a pen name that attempts to fool readers into mistakenly believing the book is by best-selling author Nora Roberts; the editors of n+1 examine the vagaries and pleasures of Twitter; Book Riot rounded up the best covers of BookExpo America; and other news.
Thomas Pynchon has reached an agreement with Penguin Press to publish his entire backlist of titles as e-books; novelist Alix Ohlin writes of childhood synesthesia and how the visual has shaped her writing; the Paris Review Daily features the drawings created by Sylvia Plath; and other news.
The Academy of American Poets named Jennifer Benka its new Executive Director; paidContent wonders why the State Department signed a multi-million dollar no-bid contract with Amazon to purchase Kindle e-readers; a debate is raging over the future of the main branch of New York City's public library; and other news.
The Israeli government may pass legislation that will make it illegal to lower the price of a book until eighteen months after its release; poet and graphic designer Sean Bishop lists the best poetry presses by their production value; Renate Stendhal separates myth from fact regarding the legacy of Gertrude Stein; and other news.
The New York Times announced its new Ethicist is author Chuck Klosterman; the Washington Post examines what BookExpo America reveals about the state of publishing; HarperCollins is preparing Ray Bradbury's backlist for digital publication; and other news.
The Library of Congress announced Natasha Trethewey is the nineteenth United States Poet Laureate; author Dean Bakopoulos parses the recent recall election in Wisconsin; Roxane Gay graphs New York Times book reviews by author ethnicity; and other news.
