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With so many good books being published every month, some literary titles worth exploring can get lost in the stacks. Page One offers the first lines of a dozen recently released books, including Dan Chiasson's Where's the Moon, There's the Moon and Monika Fagerholm's The American Girl, as the starting point for a closer look at these new and noteworthy titles.
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 Creative Nonfiction, Spinning Jenny, the Beloit Poetry Journal, Natural Bridge, Free Lunch, Abe's Penny, Flurry, and Shape of a Box.
A look at one of the images from Fallen Books—a collection of photographs from earthquake-rattled libraries, published by the Paris-based independent Onestar Press in 2008—which will be on display at the BRIC Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, from March 25 to May 1.
After six years of running Soul Mountain Retreat at her own home in East Haddam, Connecticut, founder and executive director Marilyn Nelson speaks about her experience as she enters her final year at the helm of the unique retreat.
Tom Corwin is hitting the road this spring on a cross-country bookmobile trip; Faber & Faber is starting a new creative writing school in Canada; bloggers draw attention to the various editors of the 2010 Best American series of anthologies, all of whom are white men; and other news.
Wordnik announces its new Smartwords initiative; a look at last year's best-seller lists, arranged by American city; Knopf will publish New Yorker editor David Remnick's biography of Barack Obama; Dell plans to release its Mini 5 tablet; and other news.
Villagers in Yemen protest the country's dictator poet laureate; Alibris aquires Monsoon; Salman Rushdie announces plans for a book on the fatwa years; a Chicago teacher is changing lives through spoken word; and other news.
The PEN American Center celebrates Black History Month with author tributes and rare recordings; the Boston Public Library faces major closures due to budget cuts; a poet in Florida is accused of killing her boyfriend; thousands of authors opt out of the Google Settlement; and other news.
The world's biggest book club started in a hair salon in Texas; the French National Library pays millions for a Casanova manuscript; the finalists for oddest book title of the year are announced; and other news.
A judge delays his ruling on the Google Settlement indefinitely; Elizabeth Alexander pens a tribute to Lucille Clifton; Ingram offers downloadable audio books to troops overseas; Up in the Air author is snubbed by Oscar ceremony despite six nominations; and other news.
