Faux Press Expands, Publishes "Real" Books
With the publication of four new titles, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Web publisher Faux Press has expanded its operations to include traditional book publishing.
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An Interview With Poet James Tate
The short story collection Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee, to be published later this month by Verse Press-the nonprofit literary publisher that also publishes the triannual literary poetry journal Verse-represents a significant shift in focus for poet James Tate. The author of numerous books of poetry, including Worshipful Company of Fletchers (Ecco Press), which won a National Book Award in 1997, and his Pulitzer Prize-winning Selected Poems (1991), Tate has tackled a new genre, as well as a new way of thinking about writing.
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Small Press Soiree on the Bay: Postcard From Oakland
Approximately two hundred editors, writers, and readers of small literary magazines published in the Bay Area gathered at the Black Box, a trendy Oakland theater art gallery on Sunday, November 18, for the Small Press Soiree. Dulcey Antonucci, the editor of Area i, a literary magazine that takes its name from the parking designation for residents of downtown Berkeley, collaborated with local editors to plan the evening in an effort to introduce the audience to new publications.
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Carole Baron Named New President of G.P. Putnam
Carole Baron was named president of the G.P. Putnam & Sons division of the nation's second largest book publisher, Penguin Putnam, on November 6. Baron fills the position previously held by Phyllis Grann, who resigned in September.
New Lit Mag Inspires Dialogue Between Writers, Artists
According to Kelley, a parallel goal of the biannual journal is to examine the influence of urban environments on the creative process.
An Interview With Editor Daniel Menaker
Daniel Menaker's career moves are well known in publishing circles. After twenty six years at The New Yorker-he started as a fact checker and copy editor before serving as senior editor for twenty years-Menaker moved to the position of literary editor at Random House, where he worked for the past six years. Last month, he announced that he was joining HarperCollins Publishers as executive editor of the HarperCollins imprint. Menaker will report directly to Susan Weinberg, senior vice president and editorial director of HarperCollins, Perennial, and Quill.
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The Future of Creativity: Postcard From Chicago
The term “creative communities” often evokes sequestered environments at far-flung artists’ colonies or graduate school MFA programs. This traditional notion was challenged, expanded, redefined, and reinvented during "The Future of Creativity" symposium in Chicago.
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Ithaca Named Second U.S. City of Asylum
In October, Ithaca, New York, was officially designated a city of asylum for exiled writers, only the second of its kind in the U.S.
So Much Depends Upon a New Bookstore: Postcard From Paris
On the evening of October 29, more than seventy-five people crammed into The Red Wheelbarrow, a newly opened Anglophone bookshop, to inaugurate a reading series and celebrate two literary magazines: Upstairs at Duroc, published at the Anglo cultural center WICE, and Pharos, edited collectively by poet Alice Notley’s workshop at the British Institute in Paris. The enthusiastic crowd spilled onto the cobblestone street, smoking cigarettes and craning their necks for a view of the proceedings.
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An Interview With Poet Joan Murray
In December, Boston-based Beacon Press will publish Poems to Live By in Uncertain Times,
an anthology of sixty poems "to nourish our national spirit" after the
terrorist attacks of September 11. Included in the anthology, which was
edited by Joan Murray, are poems by W.H. Auden, Czeslaw Milosz, Bertolt
Brecht, Yehuda Amichai, Gwendolyn Brooks, Yusef Komunyakaa, D.H.
Lawrence, and Sharon Olds.
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