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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.
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.
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.
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.
The Motorola Xoom takes on the iPad; a hundred-year-old book club in Illinois; Art Spiegelman's favorite books at the Strand Book Store in New York City; selling books in a clothing store; and other news.
Twelve promising British first-time novelists; bibliotherapy for couples; the end of African American literature; creating erasure poetry from hate speech; and other news.
The PEN World Voices Festival lineup is announced; World Book Night takes place in Trafalgar Square in London on March 4; the Tahrir Book Fair springs up in place of the canceled Cairo International Book Fair in Egypt; Libyan poet Khaled Mattawa talks about the ongoing demonstrations in his country; and other news.
The wife of Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo continues to live in government-enforced isolation; Barnes & Noble posts a strong sales quarter; the Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year; Joan Didion cancels April appearance; and other news.
Today is International Mother Language Day; digital books could spell the end of marginalia; a bookseller discovers new du Maurier stories; Patti Smith's memoir is up for another book award; and other news.
The most borrowed books in English libraries; a family maid sues the author of The Help; the lost art of book editing; a biopic of J. K. Rowling's life; and other news.
