Host Publications
Slowly but surely, the independent press Host has established a reputation as a publisher of literary translations from countries such as Brazil, Chile, Poland, Belgium, and Uruguay.
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Genre: Not Genre-Specific
More to the Story: Janet Fitch
Although Janet Fitch's Paint It Black, published this month by Little, Brown, is a work of fiction, the author drew inspiration from many genres, most notably poetry, while she was working on her follow-up to White Oleander.
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Shakespearean Drama Gets Graphic
Workman Publishing imprint Black Dog and Leventhal reissues King Lear and Macbeth, the illustrated Shakespeare plays originally published in the 1980s—before graphic novels acquired a mainstream audience—as part of its Graphic Shakespeare series.
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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 Paris Review, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, the Iowa Review, and Speakeasy.
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Small Press Points
Small Press Points highlights the happenings of the small press players. This issue features Seal Press and Bear Star Press.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
This installment of Page One features excerpts from The Exquisite by Laird Hunt and A Three Dog Life by Jack Pendarvis.
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Albert Camus's The Stranger Among Books on President Bush's Reading List
The White House press office recently released a list of books that President George W. Bush is reading this summer. Kenneth T. Walsh, in an article in U.S. News and World Reports, writes that White House staffers have said the president is engaged in an informal contest with senior adviser Karl Rove to see who can read more books this year.
Google Book Search May Have Competition
LibreDigital, the company currently digitizing books and audiobooks published by HarperCollins, recently announced that it will offer its service to other book publishers as well.
Knopf VP Fisketjon Wins Maxwell E. Perkins Award
Noreen Tomassi, the executive director of the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction, announced on August 23 that Gary Fisketjon, the vice president and editor-at-large of Knopf, is the winner of the second annual Maxwell Perkins Award for his work as an editor at Random House, Vintage, Atlantic Monthly Press, and Knopf.
Billy Collins, David Mitchell, Joan Didion Among Nominees for Second Annual Quills
On August 22, at a Borders Books and Music store in New York City, NBC
weatherman Al Roker announced the nominees for the second annual Quill
Book Awards. The prizes, given in nineteen categories for adult and
children's literature, are sponsored by NBC Universal Television
Stations and Reed Business Information. The public will determine the
winners by voting at the Quill
Web site. The awards, which carry no cash value, will be handed out at
a televised ceremony on October 10 at the American Museum of Natural
History in New York City.
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