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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Dial Press recently released the debut novels of crossover artists Steve Earle and Josh Ritter, musicians who, despite busy tour schedules, managed to carve out time to put their passions into print as well as into songs.
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 Kate Christensen's The Astral and Adam Zagajewski's Unseen Hand, as the starting point for a closer look at these new and noteworthy titles.
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 the jubilat, the Yale Review, River Styx, Kugelmass, the Drum, and Knee-Jerk.
In this issue we offer a look at Young Nabokov, a gouache by Maira Kalman, whose work will be on display in the exhibition Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World) at the Jewish Museum in New York City until July 31.
Amélie director takes rights for T. S. Spivet adaptation; Kafka's The Metamorphosis gets gory; Madoff takes on Michener in prison; New York City libraries avoid budget cuts; and other news.
Amazon Publishing promises to promote authors who blurb their new titles; an anthropologist wants to exhume Shakespeare's bones to test for drug use; Nick Laird reviews poetry apps; and other news.
A Virginia writer treatens kidnapping as part of a promotional stunt; the final hours of the celebrated writer Federico García Lorca; Monica Ali reimagines Princess Diana; and other news.
FBI looks into explosives planted at Borders store; Philip Roth gives up fiction; author Esther Broner remembered; U.K. Poetry Society shaken up after budget increase; and other news.
The Guardian examines the gay and lesbian literary canon; the diets of poets; Broke-Ass Stuart has a TV show; and other news.
Byliner launches depository for narrative nonfiction; Michael Chabon writes for Disney; Cloud Atlas crosses over to film; Keanu Reeves crosses over to poetry; and other news.
