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Simon & Schuster reports a rise in third quarter income; New England's largest indie bookstore goes up for sale; Scientific American still believes in the future of print books; the power of writers in the digital age; and other news.
Lil Wayne's record label launches a book publishing imprint; Toni Morrison joins France's Legion of Honor; Simon Armitage launches Poetry Parnassus; debating the value of National Novel Writing Month; and other news.
Booker finalist wins major Canadian prize; Apple's iBookstore opens in Australia; there's an app for e-book autographs; rocker-poet Patti Smith stages "Kubla Khan."
Teens are still reading for pleasure; industry professionals debate ISBN numbers for e-books; Dave Eggers sketches the World Series; Zora Neale Hurston is cast as a young detective in a new novel; and other news.
Dzanc Books starts an eBook Club; Melbourne's secondhand bookstores; National Novel Writing Month kicks off today; protests at Arundhati Roy's home in Delhi; and other news.
The Virginia Quarterly Review was rocked by the July 30 suicide of its managing editor, Kevin Morrissey, leaving the award-winning magazine’s future in doubt, as well as that of its editor.
In the sixth installment of our series Inside Indie Bookstores, contributor Jeremiah Chamberlin travels to New York City to speak with Sarah McNally, owner of McNally Jackson Books.
Portraits of Henry Miller “as a demon” and Guillaume Apollinaire, two of the thirty pieces featured in Beyond the Words: Author Portraits by Carl Köhler, currently on exhibit at the University of Chicago’s Joseph Regenstein Library.
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 Leslie Marmon Silko's The Turquoise Ledge and Julia Franck's The Blindness of the Heart, as the starting point for a closer look at these new and noteworthy titles.
