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HarperCollins is launching a program today to sell thousands of backlist titles via print-on-demand technology at independent bookstores; Fast Company reports on the discovery of numerous plagiarized e-books in Amazon's Kindle Store; Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne Sexton wrote a heartrending letter to her teenage daughter, Linda, intended to be reread in the future; and other news.
The Millions takes a close look at the essays of John Updike; Tilda Swinton writes of her discovery and fascination with Virginia Woolf’s Orlando; N+1 details embattled former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno's misreading of Virgil's Aeneid; and more.
Memoirist and monologist Mike Daisey investigates the production of the Apple devices; Dwight Garner reviews spoken-word artist Gil Scott-Heron's posthumously published memoir; Alexander Nazaryan believes fellow critic Adam Langer is the "worst book reviewer in America;" and other news.
Nine Chinese authors have filed a lawsuit against Apple, charging the technology giant with illegally selling their work; Film director Tran Anh Hung details how Haruki Murakami's helped with the screen adaptation of Norwegian Wood; publishing veteran Jonathan Galassi discusses the state of contemporary poetry; and other news.
Barnes & Noble may be considering selling its Nook division; the late Christopher Hitchens's final article for Vanity Fair; New York City independent bookstore McNally Jackson lists its 2011 bestsellers; and other news.
Meghan Daum examines the roots of hateful comment-laden Internet culture; a newly opened archive reveals decisions regarding the Nobel Prize in Literature; Slate lists reasons James Franco's novel may be good; and other news.
Famed Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti has written an appeal to help build a Poets Plaza in San Francisco; author Chuck Wendig lists twenty-five things writers should stop doing; actor James Franco has sold his first novel to Amazon Publishing; and other news.
Polly Becker, a Boston-based artist who in her formative years was influenced stylistically by artists such as Edward Gorey, Alphonse Mucha, and Aubrey Beardsley, speaks about the assemblages she created for the cover and our special section on inspiration.
In this issue we offer a look at one of Kenneth Patchen’s “picture-poems,” currently on display in An Astonished Eye: The Art of Kenneth Patchen, the largest-ever exhibition of the genre-defying writer’s visual work, at the University of Rochester in New York.
