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Tony Blair is the target of eggs and shoes at a book signing; a trolley tour of Pittsburgh's indie bookstores; this fall's line up of "heavyweight titles"; Oprah's Book Club will soon announce its next title; and other news.
The late author discusses the complexity of literature compared to other art forms.
The shocking story of a twenty-six-year-old reader who loves print books; six women writers win Rona Jaffe Writers' Awards; Slate looks at the NYTBR's track record of reviewing books by men versus women; the oldest typewriter repairman in New Haven, Connecticut, defends his machines; and other news.
Sony announces a new line of e-readers; British poets unite to protest government spending cuts; BOA Editions appoints a new publisher; Toronto's poet laureate launches a new initiative; and other news.
Mark Twain and Mary Baker Eddy, a film directed by and starring Val Kilmer as the great American author, will start pre-production in late 2010.
The Virginia Quarterly Review closes its offices and cancels its winter issue; the Chicago Manual of Style makes some key changes; Random House profits double in the first half of 2010; Heart of Darkness gets a graphic novel adaptation; and other news.
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 Paul Murray's Skippy Dies and Ai's No Surrender, 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 Upstreet, the Iowa Review, Fogged Clarity, jubilat, Granta, and Cellpoems.
American novelist Thomas Legendre, who has worked with British poet Matthew Welton to develop a new creative writing program at the University of Nottingham, speaks about what makes study in England unique and what writers can gain from attending the new graduate program.
A still from Howl, a new film centered on the drama of the obscenity trial brought against Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights for publishing Allen Ginsberg's controversial poem, which is slated for release in New York City and Los Angeles on September 24.
