Paul Auster's New Novel
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Paul Auster reads from his sixteenth novel, Sunset Park, published earlier this month by Henry Holt.
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Jonathan Safran Foer's Story Within a Story
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Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer talks about his new book, Tree of Codes, a die-cut book published on November 15, 2010, by Visual Editions in which Foer carves out a story within the story of Bruno Schulz's classic novel The Street of Crocodiles.
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Two Gentlemen of Lebowski
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CNN takes a look at the production of a play based on Adam Bertocci's Two Gentlemen of Lebowski: A Most Excellent Comedie and Tragical Romance, published last month by Simon & Schuster. Bertocci transforms Joel and Ethan Coen's 1998 movie, The Big Lebowski, into a five-act comedy of errrors written by William Shakespeare.
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Great House by Nicole Krauss
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Novelist Nicole Krauss recently appeard on the PBS NewsHour to discuss the inspiration for her third book, Great House, which was published by Norton last month. The novel, about a stolen writing desk, was recently named a finalist for the National Book Award.
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Brian Dettmer's Altered Books
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Brian Dettmer, whose art has appeared in past issues of Poets & Writers Magazine, explains his process of altering used books, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, textbooks, and medical guides, to create intricate three-dimensional works that reveal new interpretations of the original books.
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Mr. Pleasant
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Poet Jim Daniels wrote the screenplay for Mr. Pleasant, a film about one weekend in the life of Red, a student in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, in the early 1980s. The film will be shown on Friday, November 19, at the Three Rivers Film Festival in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Watch the trailer.
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 Pleiades, Nashville Review, Sycamore Review, One Story, the Oxford American, the Awakenings Review, Fairy Tale Review, and Bound Off.
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Small Press Points
Small Press Points highlights the happenings of the small press players. This issue features Sidebrow, the San Francisco–based independent press that publishes "works by multiple authors who aren’t timid about crossing genre boundaries."
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Jim Carroll’s Last Book
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Poet and musician Jim Carroll was putting the finishing touches on a novel when he passed away on September 11, 2009. Next week Viking will publish that novel, The Petting Zoo. This is the music video of The Jim Carroll Band’s “People Who Died,” which appeared on the soundtrack of the 1995 film version of his autobiography, The Basketball Diaries, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
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The Final Stage of Mike Heppner's Publishing Journey
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In the September/October 2009 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, we published the essay "Taking It to the Streets: My Year in Guerrilla Publishing" in which Mike Heppner writes about his trajectory from commercially published author to small press author to self-published, D-I-Y author. In this video, Heppner describes the final stage of his Man Talking Project: hand-delivering his manuscript to one of his readers.
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