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The brackets have been announced for the annual Morning News Tournament of Books; the University of Texas acquired David Foster Wallace's archive; a new edition of Finnegan's Wake incorporates nine thousand changes; the New York Times spins off its Book Review for e-readers; and other news.
Four films based on books picked up Oscars; the Man Asian Literary Prize undergoes major restructuring; English professors are still the lowest salary earners on campus; Britain's new super-library trend; and other news.
FSG editor Lorin Stein is named editor of the Paris Review; Barnes & Noble plans to bundle printed books with e-books; Vanity Fair collects tributes to Barry Hannah; the iPad gets an official U.S. launch date; Jon Stewart to headline the 2010 BookExpo America; and other news.
Smashwords publishes an anthology to benefit Haiti; Penguin UK unveils "stunning" new iPad book technology; India may soon become the largest English-language book market; Paris takes action to protect its indie bookstore culture; and other news.
A literary club in Saudi Arabia is targeted by arsonists; books now outnumber games in the iTunes store; the recently debunked Hiroshima book sees an upturn in fortune and sales; Tim Burton acquires the film rights to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter; and other news.
Mississippi writer Barry Hannah has died three days before a conference is to honor his life's work; a Chinese writer is placed under house arrest for attempting to attend a literary festival; a new biography attempts to label Kapuscinski as a fiction writer; the Lamda Literary Foundation launches an new online journal and blog community; and other news.
Agent Katherine Fausset answers questions from readers about the agent's role in submitting work to literary magazines and
Edna St. Vincent Millay's home in Austerlitz, New York, will be opened to the public; the New York Times reports on the blurring line between plagiarism and "appropration;" Australia's oldest literary festival kicks off this week; a library in Pennsylvania loans Kindles; and other news.
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.
