All the Things He Did Not Know: A Profile of Tom Bissell
In ten years, Tom Bissell went from being a directionless dropout to the acclaimed author of four books.
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Harpercollins to Publish Slimmed-down War And Peace
In April, the Harper Perennial imprint of HarperCollins will publish a shorter, happier version of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. The book, which HarperCollins calls the "original version," is an unpublished first draft completed by Tolstoy in 1866.
Perseus to Take Over PGW
On February 16, a Delaware bankruptcy court approved a proposal by Perseus Books to take over the distribution contracts of over one hundred independent presses formerly distributed by Publishers Group West.
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Library of Congress Enters the Digitization Race
The Library of Congress recently announced that it will digitize thousands of public domain books in its collection, including many that librarians have deemed "brittle" and in danger of becoming unusable.
Associated Press Cuts Book Review Package
The Associated Press (AP) news organization recently announced that it has discontinued the syndicated book review package offered to newspapers through its wire service.
Elie Wiesel Attacked In San Francisco Hotel
On February 1, novelist and political activist Elie Wiesel was attacked and dragged out of an elevator in a San Francisco hotel. Wiesel, the author of the Holocaust memoir Night (Hill and Wang, 1960) and the recipient of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, was a participant in a conference on religion taking place at the hotel. Accord
Galway Kinnell’s Birthday Party Poetry Reading: Postcard From New York City
Last Thursday evening in Manhattan a hundred or so literary writers and readers gathered inside Cooper Union’s Great Hall, a magnificent venue that has been host to such historical events as Abraham Lincoln's rousing Cooper Union Address, in which he urged the nation to abolish slavery, in 1860. People rushed in from the cold, scanning the auditorium for empty seats. Heavy winter coats took on lives of their own, refusing to stay within the confines of the narrow wooden chairs. Our collective body heat seemed to rise in direct proportion to the noise.
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Btw, Text Message Novel Published in Finland {:-)
Last month the Finnish publishing company Tammi released a 332-page novel consisting entirely of cellular phone text messages.
Deborah Landau Named Director of NYU Creative Writing Program
New York University’s graduate school of arts and science recently named poet Deborah Landau as the director of its creative writing program.
Fiction Writer From El Salvador Finds Asylum in Pittsburgh
The Pittsburgh branch of the North American Network of Cities of Asylum (NANCA), an organization that hosts persecuted and exiled writers from around the world in five American cities, recently announced that fiction writer Horacio Castellanos Moya from El Salvador will be its second writer-in-residence...
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