Network: How to Use LinkedIn to Connect With Your Community
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.
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Homegrown Libraries
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.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
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.
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Small Press Points
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.
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Literary MagNet
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.
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The Written Image: Moby-Dick in Pictures
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.
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The Beautiful Life of Steve Jobs, Ireland's Poet President, and More
The inspired world of Steve Jobs, through the eyes of his novelist sister; Ireland elects a poet president; Barnes and Noble expands e-book real estate; T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx, penpals; and other news.
Writers Denounce Oakland's Actions, Philip K. Dick Estate Sues, and More
Writers from the San Francisco Bay area have signed a petition denouncing Oakland's recent actions toward protestors; literary agent Ira Silverberg will be the new literature director of the National Endowment for the Arts; Philip K. Dick's estate has filed a lawsuit against the makers of the film The Adjustment Bureau; and other news.
Kobo to Launch Publishing Arm, Rita Dove Bluffs Amy Tan, and More
E-bookseller Kobo will create a publishing division; the Chicago Tribune is planning a standalone books section; writers Walter Kirn, Steve Martin, Rita Dove, and Amy Tan recently met at a Chinese restaurant in New York City to play poker; and other news.
Will Amazon Kill Publishers? Toni Morrison's Desdemona, and More
Melville House publisher, Dennis Johnson, adds his voice to the ongoing debate over the future of publishing; Occupy Wall Street has created a poetry anthology; Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison has written a new play, Desdemona, that speaks to Shakespeare's Othello; and other news.
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