Genre: Not Genre-Specific

11.1.06

When fiction writer Barry Eisler heard last summer that Kepler's Books in Menlo Park, California, would close after fifty years in business, his first reaction was a loud expletive. His second was an e-mail to owner Clark Kepler with an offer to help. "I used to see those big author photos in the window…and I was working on what would become my first novel," says Eisler, the author of the Jain Rain series of thrillers. "My fantasies of literary success were all based on doing book signings at Kepler's."

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Literary MagNet

Kevin Larimer

11.1.06

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 Ploughshares, Calyx, Gargoyle, and American Short Fiction.

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literary magazines | women | Literary MagNet

Small Press Points

Kevin Larimer

literary magazines | Small Press Points

11.1.06

Small Press Points highlights the happenings of the small press players. This issue features Featherproof Books, Hourglass Books, Haymarket Books, Dalkey Archive Press, BOA Editions Ltd., and Omnidawn Publishing.

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The Written Image: Up Is Up, but So Is Down

Staff

11.1.06

Art from Up Is Up, but So Is Down, a collection of writing and more than 125 photographs, book covers, and flyers that illustrate the dynamic, subversive work of the literary community known as "Downtown."

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The Written Image

Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin

Staff

11.1.06

This installment of Page One features excerpts from The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian and American Genius: A Comedy by Lynne Tillman.

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Page One

University of Minnesota Acquires Robert Bly Archive for $775,000

by Staff

10.30.06

The papers of poet Robert Bly were purchased earlier this month by the University of Minnesota Libraries for $775,000.

New Directions Celebrates Seventy Years of Publishing

by Staff

10.25.06

This year marks the seventieth anniversary of New Directions, the independent press founded by the late James Laughlin. To celebrate, the press will hold two events in New York City this fall—a private party in November at the used bookstore Housing Works and a public gathering at the New School on December 5.

Observer Repeats New York Times Survey and Names Disgrace Best Work of Fiction

by Staff

10.24.06

Nearly five months after New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus surveyed several hundred writers, critics, and editors to name the best work of American fiction published in the last twenty-five years (Toni Morrison’s Beloved)...

New Esquire Fiction Editor Promises More Short Stories

by Staff

10.23.06

The monthly men’s magazine Esquire announced last week that its newly hired fiction editor, Tom Chiarella, will publish twice as many original stories next year as were published in 2006.

Penguin and Amazon Form Online Classics Reading Group

by Staff