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Small Press Points highlights the happenings of the small press players. This issue features CityLit Press, an independent publisher based in Baltimore that provides a venue for writers who might otherwise be ignored by larger independent or commercial publishers.
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 Little Star, Still Crazy, the Paris Review, the Southwest Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, DIAGRAM, and Linebreak.
Crown Publishing cuts two imprints and regroups; Amazon sends another volley in the e-book pricing wars; an Indiana high school bans Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announces plans to release Philip K. Dick's philosophical writings; and other news.
Author Tayari Jones calls for a boycott of Arizona; today is National Poem In Your Pocket Day; the Author's Guild elects new leadership; PEN luminaries honor Nay Phone Latt; and other news.
Laura Bush's revealing new memoir is due out in May; a book of Marilyn Monroe's writings is forthcoming from FSG; Cambridge Dictionaries Online adds audio pronuncations; sales of British political manifestos are booming; and other news.
Nooks outshipped Kindles in March; a British author claims to have solved a seventy-year-old murder; Orion takes top honor at the Utne Independent Press Awards; George W. Bush's memoir book jacket and official release date announced; and other news.
New York Magazine solicits volcano poetry from celebrities; jubliat celebrates ten years in print; a rock band puts Paul Celan's Holocaust poetry to music; Random House acquieses on e-book rights for several William Styron titles; and other news.
BEA announces a major new panel; the judge in the Google Book Settlement gets a promotion; the Academy of American Poets annual gala takes place in New York; today is possibly Shakespeare's birthday; and other news.
Barnes & Noble takes the e-reader battle to broadcast television; the FBI is investigating fraud at Naropa University; the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books kicks off on Saturday; Earth Day reflections from a descendant of Henry David Thoreau; and other news.
Book publishers turn to BEA and Frankfurt after the volcano disrupts LBF; another Chinese PEN member is banned from travel; Narrative Magazine develops an iPhone app; a City Lights employee celebrates forty years at the bookshop; and other news.
