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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.
While U.S. publishers continue their cautious march into the digitization of American titles, the rest of the world is looking to take advantage of other burgeoning markets in Europe, Japan, and beyond.
While other social networking sites are useful for playful community-building, LinkedIn provides a place for professional writers to focus on sincerity when creating connections.
Artist Colin McMullan, founder of the Kindness and Imagination Development Society, has found one way to take the act of sharing that’s become so popular with social media outside the electronic box and into the physical world with his Corner Library project.
With so many good books being published every month, some literary titles worth exploring can get lost in the stacks. Page One offers the first lines of a dozen recently released books, including Aracelis Girmay’s Kingdom Animalia, and Tomaž Šalamun’s The Blue Tower, as the starting point for a closer look at these new and noteworthy titles.
Small Press Points highlights the happenings of the small press players. This issue features Exterminating Angel Press, the six-year-old independent book publisher with a big mission: to challenge the received cultural narrative.
Literary MagNet chronicles the start-ups and closures, successes and failures, anniversaries and accolades, changes of editorship and special issues—in short, the news and trends—of literary magazines in America. This issue’s MagNet features Memoir (and), Harvard Review, Huizache, the Coffin Factory, Monday Night, and Ploughshares.
In this issue we offer a look at one of the 552 illustrations by Tim Kish, who created a picture a day for each page of Melville’s tome, featured in Moby-Dick in Pictures, published in October by Tin House Books.
