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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 Aimee Bender's The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and Joshua Mohr's Termite Parade, as the starting point for a closer look at these new and noteworthy titles.
Small Press Points highlights the happenings of the small press players. This issue features Blue Hour Press, an independent poetry publisher in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, that is “dedicated to bridging the gap between the beauty and tradition of print and the accessibility and possibility of the Web, releasing digital chapbooks that are satisfying, respectable, and innovative.”
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 Isotope, Gigantic, Bombay Gin, Ploughshares, the Harvard Review, and Prairie Schooner.
Google partners with indie booksellers; the grand-prize winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is announced; Muse Books in Florida celebrates thirty years; the rise of Dalit lit; and other news.
J. M. Coetzee makes a rare public appearance in England; Jeff Bezos discusses the future of the book with Fortune; Harper Lee grants her first interview in four years; Barnes & Noble has a banner fiscal year; and other news.
Yet another alternative "twenty under forty" list is released, this time by Dzanc Books; the Independent laments today's "needy, neurotic" vampires; Gertrude Stein's poetry is letterpressed onto dresses in San Francisco; a Welsh grandmother publishes her debut novel at age eighty-two; and other news.
PEN American Center launches a new online reading group; Rhode Island's state poem proposal is nixed; General Stanley McChrystal wrote fiction and was the editor of West Point's literary magazine; the iPhone 4 draws the usual crowds; and other news.
A rare collection of William Faulkner books sells for a lot of money at auction; Robyn Cresswell has been appointed poetry editor of the Paris Review; the fourth Shakespeare and Company literary festival took place in Paris this weekend; Borders launches an iPhone app; and other news.
The new Dostoyevsky metro station in Moscow might be a little grim; the Eat, Pray, Love film adaptation is due in August with a host of product tie-ins; Apple sells its three millionth iPad; Andrew Phillips is named president of Penguin International; and other news.
John Updike's typwriter is up for auction; a price war heats up in the e-reader market; Publishers Weekly ranks the world's biggest publishers; after six years the Google Books settlement still has no end in sight; and other news.
