Jump to navigation Skip to content
The Academy of American Poets named Jennifer Benka its new Executive Director; paidContent wonders why the State Department signed a multi-million dollar no-bid contract with Amazon to purchase Kindle e-readers; a debate is raging over the future of the main branch of New York City's public library; and other news.
Poet Wayne Miller once compared reading a poem in translation to “watching a film with the sound turned down.” Find two or more English translations of a poem originally written in a foreign language with which you’re not familiar. Compare the translations, and try to “re-translate” the original poem based on the various English translations you’ve read.
While essentially a promo for the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world, this clip does offer a valuable look at the jobs of a few of the many people who work at Random House, from editorial and design through production, marketing, sales, and distribution.
The Israeli government may pass legislation that will make it illegal to lower the price of a book until eighteen months after its release; poet and graphic designer Sean Bishop lists the best poetry presses by their production value; Renate Stendhal separates myth from fact regarding the legacy of Gertrude Stein; and other news.
The new poet laureate is seen here reading "Theories of Time and Space" at last year's Oxford Conference for the Book in Oxford, Mississippi.
The New York Times announced its new Ethicist is author Chuck Klosterman; the Washington Post examines what BookExpo America reveals about the state of publishing; HarperCollins is preparing Ray Bradbury's backlist for digital publication; and other news.
Lest we forget the simple pleasures of the imagination, we present John Boswell's incredible tribute to the person who nurtured a lot of writers before they ever knew how to write: Mister Rogers.
The Library of Congress announced Natasha Trethewey is the nineteenth United States Poet Laureate; author Dean Bakopoulos parses the recent recall election in Wisconsin; Roxane Gay graphs New York Times book reviews by author ethnicity; and other news.
The author, who died on Wednesday at the age of ninety-one, is seen here in a 2009 conversation with Lawrence Bridges about his best-known work, the novel Fahrenheit 451. President Barack Obama noted yesterday that Bradbury's "gift for storytelling reshaped our culture and expanded our world."
