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Southern Writer Barry Hannah Dies, March Is National Small Press Month, and More

by Staff
3.2.10

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.

Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin

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

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.

 

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