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Mark Twain's memoir goes to print; Anne Frank's diary becomes a graphic novel; Poets House puts on its annual book showcase; the value of book blurbs is up for debate; and other news.
Gulf Coast launches a subscription drive to benefit the Gulf crisis; an antique dealer is convicted of possessing a stolen original Shakespeare folio; a Nick Cave novel will be made into a TV mini-series; Sony may be developing an e-reader that is also a hand-held gaming device; and other news.
The Harry Ransom Center acquires Denis Johnson's papers; the NEA announces this year's Big Read grants; Oxford University opens Project Woruldhord; Lisa Rundle is rehired by Penguin Canada; and other news.
Borders arrives late to the e-book store party; the Alzheimer's Poetry Project is improving lives in Central Florida; publishers react to proposal for postal rate increase; the Boston Globe launches a citywide reading program; and other news.
Jonathan Franzen's forthcoming novel already has booksellers hopeful; reading e-books will take you longer compared to reading printed books; Tin House and Dzanc Books support bookstores; Sony lowers the price on its line of e-readers; and other news.
Amazon slashes the price of the Kindle DX; a Faulkner and Film conference takes place later this month in Mississippi; Canada's iBookstore opens on Canada Day; McDonald's teams up with the Detroit Public Library; and other news.
A selection of essays that commemorate what was lost and celebrate the literary arts in New Orleans.
An excerpt from “The What and the How of It” by John Biguenet (in Before During After, edited by Elizabeth Kleinveld, to be published by the University of New Orleans Press in 2010).
A writer grapples with his decision to abandon writing, flee New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and become a passive witness to a narrative spun by nature.
A Walt Whitman "freak-out jam" takes place in Brooklyn, New York, tonight; W. S. Merwin is appointed U.S. poet laureate; Christopher Hitchens cancels his book tour to undergo cancer treatment; scientists name a prehistoric whale after Herman Melville; and other news.
