HarperCollins Limits Lending of E-books, Bookstore Saved by Community, and More
Problems with the portrayal of characters of color; the ten greatest poets; a publisher's limits on library lending; another top honor for Vargas Llosa; and other news.
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A Lost C. S. Lewis Aeneid Translation Is Published, National Grammar Day, and More
Today is National Grammar Day; OR Books gathers the Tweets of Egyptian activists into a book; a French court dismisses a libel claim against a book review editor for a negative review he published; a C. S. Lewis translation of Virgil's Aeneid will be published next month; and other news.
Libraries of Love, Bishops Boot "Booty" From the Bible, Staging The March, and More
PEN International condemns the arrest of writer Ye Du in China; the San Francisco Public Library hosts a speed-dating session; a five-day nonstop marathon reading of the King James Bible in Bath, England; poet Andrew Motion becomes a playwright; and other news.
Michel Houellebecq as Morrissey, Minas Tirith in Matchsticks, and More
Donald Hall and Harper Lee will receive National Humanities Medals; literary journal Open City is ceasing publication after twenty years; Michel Houellebecq releases a music single; Bloomsbury USA posts its best financial year ever; and other news.
Banned Books Return to Shops in Egypt and Tunisia, Penguin Posts Profits, and More
Banned books return to shelves in Tunisia and Egypt; Random House switches to the agency model; Penguin reports a 26 percent operating profit for 2010; librarians join the ongoing protests in Madison, Wisconsin; and other news.
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 T. C. Boyle's When the Killing's Done and Laura Kasischke's Space, in Chains, as the starting point for a closer look at these new and noteworthy titles.
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Q&A: Chabon Takes Chair at MacDowell
Shortly after Michael Chabon stepped into the position of chair of the MacDowell Colony’s board of directors last December, he spoke about his dedication to the colony and about making the most of the MacDowell experience.
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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 the Literary Bohemian, Tin House, Barrelhouse, Alimentum, New Letters, and Confrontation.
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The Written Image: The Select
A scene from The Select (The Sun Also Rises), the third in a trilogy of productions based on modernist American literature of the 1920s by New York City–based theater company Elevator Repair Service, which will play at Emerson College’s Paramount Center in Boston from March 15 to March 20.
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Agent Advice: Jenni Ferrari-Adler of Brick House Literary Agents
Does your book need to be finished before you seek representation? Do agents really read synopses? Agent Jenni Ferrari-Adler, whose clients include Lauren Shockey and Emma Straub, answers these questions and more.
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