College Claims Former Poetry Program Director Uprooted Its MFA
A New Hampshire college and its former director are locked in lawsuits related to the creation of a new master's program at Drew University in New Jersey.
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Salaries on Ice: Macmillan Follows Penguin, HarperCollins in Response to Financial Crisis
Macmillan U.S. today announced that it will curtail salary increases, effective January 1, 2009, for staff earning fifty thousand dollars or more. HarperCollins and Penguin Group (USA) announced similar measures last week.
Anne Carson Makes It New: Postcard From New York City
Last Thursday Anne Carson collaborated with sculptor Peter Cole, choreographers Jonah Bokaer and Rashaun Mitchell, and dancers from the Merce Cunnigham company to present “Stacks and Bracko.”
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Random House Offers Free eBooks on Stanza Reader
Random House Publishing Group announced yesterday its partnership with Lexcycle, Inc., owners of the Stanza eBook reader for iPhone and iPod Touch, to make full-length eBook titles available to Stanza users at no cost.
Krasinksi's Film Version of DFW Collection to Appear at Sundance
John Krasinski, best known as the character Jim Halpert on the NBC sitcom The Office, will make his directorial debut at the Sundance Film Festival next month with a film adaptation of Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (Little, Brown 1999) by the late David Foster Wallace.
New York Times Picks Best Books of 2008
On Wednesday the New York Times unveiled its list of the ten best books of 2008. Divided evenly between the categories of fiction and nonfiction, the list has drawn an unusually strong response from readers and bloggers alike.
Simon & Shuster Slashes Staff, Random House Restructures
Yesterday, Simon & Schuster added to a grim week of news for book
publishing with the announcement that it had eliminated thirty-five
jobs across several departments.
More Troubling News From HMH: Becky Saletan Resigns
Becky Saletan, senior vice president and publisher of adult trade books at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) since January, has resigned. Her last day will be December 10. The resignation was confirmed yesterday by Josef Blumenfeld, vice president of communications for HMH.
Hannah Tinti Wins Merc Center's First Novel Prize
Last night, the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction awarded the 2008 John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize to Hannah Tinti for The Good Thief (Dial Press).
Spanish Novelist Juan Marsé Wins Cervantes Prize
Spain's culture minister, César Antonio Molina, announced last week that seventy-five-year-old Spanish novelist Juan Marsé has won the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honor. Considered by some to be on the level of the Nobel Prize, the award comes with a cash stipend of 125,000 euros ($160,000).
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