Strangers Meet in Virtual Libraries
A computer programmer and former employee of Houghton Mifflin launches Library Thing, a Web site designed to re-create library-gazing online.
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Genre: Not Genre-Specific
Q&A: Jacobs Steps In at Feminist Press
During her third month on the job, Jacobs spoke about her new position as executive director of the oldest independent publisher of women's writing in the world.
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Literary MagNet
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 the Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, Fence, Harpur Palate, Slate, and Ellipsis.
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Small Press Points
Small Press Points highlights the happenings of the small press players. This issue features Blue Moon Books, Soft Skull Press, Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Clear Cut Press, and Broadsided Press.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
This installment of Page One features excerpts from Hillbilly Gothic: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood by Adrienne Martini and The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee.
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Three Indie Bookstores Call it Quits in California
Three independent bookstores in the San Francisco Bay area have recently closed due to declining sales.
Four Emerging Poets Make Annual "Discovery"
Four poets were recently named winners of the 32nd annual "Discovery"/the Nation Poetry Prizes.
Annual IPPY Awards Honor the Best From Small Presses
The winners of the 2006 Independent Publisher Book Awards (the IPPYs) were recently announced. Given in sixty-five categories, the annual awards are intended to bring increased recognition to books published in the past year by independent and university presses as well as self-published titles.
Hot Town, Summer in The City: Madison Square's Free Readings
On Thursday, June 22, the Madison Square Park Conservancy launched a free series of summer readings in Madison Square Park, located between 23rd and 26th streets and Fifth and Madison avenues in New York City.
Guggenheim Foundation Awards Annual Fellowships
The 2006 Guggenheim Fellowships were recently awarded to twenty-seven poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers.
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