Small Press Points
Small Press Points highlights the happenings of the small press players. This issue features Hourglass Books, Hanging Loose Press, and Chiasmus Press.
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Genre: Not Genre-Specific
The Written Image: “Categories”
In an effort to promote scientific literacy, foster an appreciation of the humanities, and encourage readers to make "informed and imaginative connections" between the sciences and the arts, New York City–based Vernacular Press recently launched a series of books titled "Categories."
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French Conglomerate Buys Time Warner Book Group
Time Warner Inc., the company that owns America Online, HBO, and Warner Bros. Entertainment, among other media and entertainment businesses, recently announced the sale of its book publishing division, Time Warner Book Group, to the French company Lagardère SCA for $537.5 million.
Academy of American Poets Elects Three New Chancellors
The Academy of American Poets recently announced the election of Rita
Dove, Gerald Stern, and Kay Ryan to its board of chancellors. They will
join current chancellors Frank Bidart, Robert Hass, Susan Howe, Galway
Kinnell, Philip Levine, Nathaniel Mackey, Robert Pinsky, Susan Stewart,
Gary Snyder, James Tate, Ellen Bryant Voigt, and C.K. Williams.
Chicago Tribune Shrinks Sunday Book Section
The Chicago Tribune recently announced that its Sunday book section will switch to a tabloid format. The move provides less space for book review coverage, and is intended to lower costs by reducing the amount of newsprint used.
Charges Against Orhan Pamuk Dropped
A Turkish court recently dropped charges against novelist Orhan Pamuk for insulting “Turkishness” in a comment on the country’s history. In February 2005 Pamuk told the Swiss newspaper Tages Anzeiger that Turkey has yet to confront both the Armenian genocide during World War I and violence in the country’s Kurdish southeast in the 1980s and '90s
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Original Voices Award Goes to Nicole Krauss
National Book Critics Circle Nominates Best Books Of 2005
The National Book Critics Circle, a nonprofit organization composed of 500 book critics and reviewers from across the country, recently announced the finalists for the 2005 book awards. The winners in each category—poetry, fiction, nonfiction, autobiography, criticism, and biography—will be named on March 3.
In Search of David Foster Wallace
Whether it’s a thousand-page novel, a single-paragraph story, or a footnoted essay, the elusive author always offers a complicated—and sometimes maddening—reading experience. But is there more to David Foster Wallace than words on a page?
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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, A Public Space, lyric, Saranac Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Red River Review, the Canary, and River Styx.
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