Small Press Points
Small Press Points highlights the happenings of the small press players. This issue features No Tell Books and Perugia Press.
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Genre: Not Genre-Specific
The Written Image: “Skin”
Images of participants who tattooed one word from Shelley Jackson’s 2,095-word story, “Skin,” on their bodies as part of her “mortal work of art” project.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
This Page One features excerpts from Corrections to My Memoirs by Michael Kun and Home Remedies by Angela Pneuman.
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Swashbuckling Depp Options Three Books
Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp recently acquired the film rights to three books, including James Meek’s novel The People’s Act of Love (Canongate, 2005), Variety reported last week.
Hejinian, Olds, and Phillips Join Academy's Chancellors
The Academy of American Poets announced on December 14 the election of
Lyn Hejinian, Sharon Olds, and Carl Phillips to its board of
chancellors. They were chosen by current chancellors Frank Bidart, Rita
Dove, Robert Hass, Susan Howe, Galway Kinnell, Philip Levine, Nathaniel
Mackey, Robert Pinsky, Kay Ryan, Gary Snyder, Gerald Stern, James Tate,
Ellen Bryant Voigt, and C. K. Williams.
Maureen Egen to Step Down as Hachette Publisher
Maureen Egen, the publisher and deputy chairman of Hachette Book Group USA (formerly known as Time Warner Book Group), announced Tuesday that she will step down from "active management" of the company at the end of the year.
Barnes & Noble's Sterling Adds Nonfiction Imprint
Sterling Publishing, a subsidiary of the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain, recently announced the launch of an imprint devoted exclusively to narrative nonfiction.
Publisher Thomas Nelson to Eliminate Book Imprints
Christian publisher Thomas Nelson recently announced that it will eliminate all of its twenty-one imprints and publish books solely under the Thomas Nelson name and logo.
Perseus Books Group Plans Layoffs in 2007
Perseus Books Group recently announced that approximately thirty employees of the recently acquired Consortium Books Sales and Distribution will be laid off in March 2007.
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Dalkey Archive Will Still Move (but Not Very Far)
Dalkey Archive Press has finally found a new home. Less than a month after the twenty-two-year-old nonprofit publisher abandoned its plans to move from its current location at Ilinois State University to the University of Rochester, Dalkey Archive announced on December 1 that it is moving to the University of Illinois...
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