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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 Dorothea Lasky's Black Life and Travis Nichols's Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder, as the starting point for a closer look at these new and noteworthy titles.
A look at a sculpture by U.K. artist Su Blackwell, one of the thirty-three artists showcased in the art book and craft guide Playing With Books: The Art of Upcycling, Deconstructing, and Reimagining the Book, published by Quarry Books in April.
Small Press Points highlights the happenings of the small press players. This issue features CityLit Press, an independent publisher based in Baltimore that provides a venue for writers who might otherwise be ignored by larger independent or commercial publishers.
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 Little Star, Still Crazy, the Paris Review, the Southwest Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, DIAGRAM, and Linebreak.
Crown Publishing cuts two imprints and regroups; Amazon sends another volley in the e-book pricing wars; an Indiana high school bans Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announces plans to release Philip K. Dick's philosophical writings; and other news.
Author Tayari Jones calls for a boycott of Arizona; today is National Poem In Your Pocket Day; the Author's Guild elects new leadership; PEN luminaries honor Nay Phone Latt; and other news.
Laura Bush's revealing new memoir is due out in May; a book of Marilyn Monroe's writings is forthcoming from FSG; Cambridge Dictionaries Online adds audio pronuncations; sales of British political manifestos are booming; and other news.
Nooks outshipped Kindles in March; a British author claims to have solved a seventy-year-old murder; Orion takes top honor at the Utne Independent Press Awards; George W. Bush's memoir book jacket and official release date announced; and other news.
New York Magazine solicits volcano poetry from celebrities; jubliat celebrates ten years in print; a rock band puts Paul Celan's Holocaust poetry to music; Random House acquieses on e-book rights for several William Styron titles; and other news.
BEA announces a major new panel; the judge in the Google Book Settlement gets a promotion; the Academy of American Poets annual gala takes place in New York; today is possibly Shakespeare's birthday; and other news.
