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Poet Javier Sicilia leads a mass group struggling for social change in Mexico; Salon takes a look at the middle-class segment of what's considered the creative class, and why it's vanishing; Maurice Sendak refuses "to lie to children"; and other news.
New York City library book thief nabbed by store owner; Amazon replaces poorly-formatted e-book; Argentina stops books at the border; Beckham owes U.K. poet laureate a pair of cleats; and other news.
Poet CAConrad offers his insight on the Wall Street protests; nineteen authors have joined together to help a child with cancer; the ten most misused words in English; and other news.
James Salter examines the life and work of Ernest Hemingway; how to properly compose a love poem; favorite banned books; and other news.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are now available online; the Writers' Union of Canada creates a bill of rights for the digital age; the Lisa Simpson Book Club; and other news.
Trident Media Group joins the ranks of those servicing e-books for their authors; the one hundred most powerful people in U.K. publishing; James Franco teaches poetry to his film students; and other news.
Saint Mark's Bookshop in New York City seeks a rent cut to stay in business; Ed Park takes job as senior editor of Amazon New York; a letter from T. S. Eliot to Virginia Woolf; and other news.
New York Times best-selling author Carolyn Parkhurst shares the bookstores, reading series, and other literary landmarks of Washington, D.C., that make it “a beautiful, vibrant, creative city.”
A California group attempts to repeal a law that allows students to learn about Walt Whitman; Ugandan police arrest writer Vincent Nzaramba; previously banned Slaughterhouse-Five is restored to Missouri school library; and other news.
A Pennsylvania school closes production of the musical Kismet; Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez's 1996 book, News of a Kidnapping, sells out in Tehran; Eudora Welty's Mississippi garden; and other news.
