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When the Google Books settlement was shot down on March 22 by judge Denny Chin, who cited copyright and competition concerns, plans for not-for-profit alternatives such as the Digital Public Library of America began taking shape.
In this regular feature, we offer a few suggestions for podcasts, smartphone apps, Web tools, newsletters, museum shows, and gallery openings: a medley of literary curiosities that you might enjoy.
Public relations consultant Lauren Cerand offers tips for how to use Twitter to promote yourself and your writing, engage with your readers, and stay current on the publishing and literary scenes.
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.
