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Waterstone's announces twenty store closures in the U.K.; Snooki's novel released today; e-books outsell their print counterparts on the USA Today best-seller list; Nancy Pearl is named Librarian of the Year; and other news.
Three years after emerging poet Joshua Vinzant committed suicide, his mentor set out in an unrelenting quest to find a publisher for Vinzant's chapbook, Max, which was published by Ropewalk Press last summer.
Dzanc Books launches a writing retreat in Portugal; the centennial of Tolstoy's death passes quietly in Russia; Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is updated in a new edition; gender inequality in the New Yorker; and other news.
The importance of prison libraries; editors rediscover Hurston stories; national essay contest asks, Does poetry matter?; and other news.
In the past year several new electronic-submission systems have emerged, among them Submishmash, Green Submissions, and Tell It Slant, enabling journal editors to manage writer's work more efficiently.
Literary journals learn to sidestep old-school printing, distribution, and marketing costs by leveraging new media and social-networking platforms.
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 Maxine Hong Kingston's I Love a Broad Margin to My Life and Michael McClure's Of Indigo and Saffron, 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 ZYZZYVA, Cave Wall, Annalemma, H.O.W. Journal, Assembly, and the Whitefish Review.
A day after he finalized the last of his illustrations for our January/February 2011 issue, Jim Tierney, an illustrator and designer at Penguin, spoke about the inspiration behind his work.
Six finalists are announced for the fifty-thousand-dollar International Prize for Arabic Fiction; Publishers Weekly launches a quarterly listing of self-published books; Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride" turns 150 years old; authors recite Dickens's A Christmas Carol in New York City; and other news.
