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Nick Hornby launches the Ministry of Stories in London; literary agent Irene Goodman auctions off manuscript critiques for a good cause; the role of self-promotion in contemporary poetry; Barnes & Noble investors extend their poison pill provision; and other news.
James Frey's latest controversy; Leonardo DiCaprio is set to star in The Great Gatsby; drinking your way out of writer's block; novelists turn to writing video games; and other news.
Cambridge University Press adopts a giant panda; bookstore sales drop 7.7 percent in September; Sonic Youth's frontman will teach at Naropa University; the fourth annual Quidditch World Cup crowns a champion; and other news.
The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library prepares to open in Indianapolis; many college bookstores hope to drop the b-word; the holiday season may be a "tipping point" for e-readers; Penguin celebrates seventy-five years in business; and other news.
Real life Harry Potter–style invisibility cloaks; MIT cuts its Advanced Poetry Workshop; a new tablet called LePad will launch next year; Billy Collins meets a four-year-old boy who can recite his poems; and other news.
The New York Times announces plans to publish e-book best-seller lists; a literary magazine renaissance; Terry Pratchett and Martin Amis pick up lifetime achievement awards in London; the most beautiful college libraries; and other news.
E-book sales will approach one billion dollars for 2010; Cambridge University donates a hundred thousand books to schools in Southern Africa; juice poetry in Switzerland; Romanian poet Adrian Paunescu dies at the age of sixty-seven; and other news.
The Harry Ransom Center acquires Spalding Gray's archives; the USO's Operation Thriller; David Rosenthal joins Penguin as publisher of a new imprint; Edgar Allen Poe returns to Hollywood; and other news.
The first color E Ink e-reader; Iraqi books return to the international market for the first time since the war; kids are participating in NaNoWriMo in huge numbers; signed photographs of the "Faber Poets" on sale at Bonham's in England; and other news.
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.
