Dodge Suspends Biennial Poetry Festival
Faced with budget cuts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation announced on Thursday that it will suspend its biennial poetry festival.
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Self-Publisher Partners With Popular iPhone Reader
Smashwords, the self-publishing company founded by Mark Coker last year in Los Gatos, California, recently announced an agreement with Lexcycle, the company that makes the popular Stanza e-book reader for iPhone and iPod Touch devices.
Pause the Podcast and Dial-a-Poem
As poets and publishers have taken advantage of technological advances to present poetry in a variety of new media, from podcasts to video poetry produced for the small screen, one writers organization is looking back to the telephone to spread the word.
Treasures from New York City Indie Bookstore Donated to Library
An anonymous donor who paid $440,000 for a treasure trove of books and magazines from the Gotham Book Mart, an independent bookstore in New York City that was forced to close in 2007, has donated the collection to the University of Pennsylvania's Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
NEA Chairman: "The Dumbing Down of Our Culture Is Not Inevitable"
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced today that reading in the United States is making a resurgence.
Self-Publishing Giants ASI and Xlibris Unite
Self-publishing company Author Solutions, Inc., which operates four imprints including AuthorHouse and iUniverse, has acquired its competitor Xlibris for an undisclosed sum.
Hemingway's Basement Archive Preserved and Digitized
About half of the more than two thousand documents that had been moldering for decades in the basement of Ernest Hemingway's home outside Havana, Cuba, have been preserved and digitized and are now available to scholars.
Abducted Nigerian Novelist Freed
Nigerian writer Elechi Amadi, who was abducted on Monday, has been freed.
Mumbai Bookstores Pull Pakistani Titles
A number of bookstores in Mumbai, the financial capital of India, have begun removing books written by Pakistani authors in response to the terror attacks that killed nearly 175 people and injured more than 300 last November.
Holocaust Memoir Found to Have Been Fabricated
The publication of a memoir by Holocaust survivor Herman Rosenblat has been canceled after the author admitted to having embellished his story.
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