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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.
The Salinger estate attempts to fend off Hollywood; Geoffrey Hill wins the Oxford post in a landslide; the childhood home of Stanley Kunitz is made a Literary Landmark; the New York Times takes a sneak peek into John Updike's archives; and other news.
Nick Hornby helps Ben Folds make literary music; another "20 Under 40" list emerges, from Britain; a group of prominent African authors head to the continent to cover their experiences during the World Cup; a novelist with his pen on the pulse of pop culture designs a clothing line; and other news.
Austria strikes a digitization deal with Google; Stieg Larsson's longtime companion refuses a settlement from the author's family; New York library users stage a read-in; the twentieth annual International Poetry Festival of Medellin kicks off next month in Columbia; and other news.
