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For thousands of would-be novelists, November is NaNoWriMo; the New York Observer is getting a new editor; McSweeney’s is giving readers a taste of its long-awaited newspaper project; the Espresso Book Machine is gaining ground; a new study looks at how U.S. ...
LA’s inkSlam Poetry Festival is underway; the glut of Penguin merchandise has some concerned that the publisher is forgetting its radical roots; U.K. publishers are urging government action against digital piracy; zombie literature refuses to die; and other news. [More....]
The Internet Archive is offering libraries a legal scanning solution for copyright “orphans”; Hyperion has a new editor in chief; San Diego is pressing ahead with its long-delayed central library plans; a new Web site is testing the profitability of poetry; this spring’s Beirut39 festival will ...
Poets & Writers In the latest installment of Writers Recommend, poet Dara Wier explains the ways in which her childhood spent south of New Orleans "helps with poetry's desires." How has your childhood hometown influenced your work?
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In this online exclusive we've asked authors who have been featured in our pages to share books, art, music, writing prompts, films—anything and everything—that has inspired them in their writing. We see this as a place for writers to turn to for ideas that will help feed their creative process.
Canadian publishers are receiving notice this week about federal grant allotments; Shipping News author E...
Nearly two thousand publishers are heading to Mexico this month for what organizers say is the world’s largest Spanish-language book fair; a prequel is in the works for the late Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot novels; Scholastic has pulled a title from its elementary school book fairs after the author ref...
Eggers’s Katrina tale will become a cartoon; China’s official state newspaper has accused Google of censorship; Emily Dickinson’s house has been closed after ceiling worries; Lord Byron’s unpublished letters have set an auction record; and other news. [More....]
Poets & Writers First-time author Joshua Mohr recommends late night writing. When are you most creative?
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"I'm not sure many people think of insomnia as a good thing, but it is. As a 'sufferer,' I'm up until five or six in the morning almost daily. One thing I've found is that I write with the most imagination ...
Authors and editors took part in a spelling-bee this week to raise money for the CLMP; Britain’s independent bookstores may be doing better than reported, but some are concerned about the threat posed by new business taxes; echoing Amazon, B&N has declared its e-reader a best-seller, too; and o...
A literary scavenger hunt is underway in the Twin Cities; a French minister wants the EU to formulate a collective response to Google and its ilk; “Twitterfiction” is winning fans and detractors; Augusten Burroughs has more TV adaptations in the works; and other news. [More....]
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The winners of the 2009 Amy Awards read their work at New York Society Library on October 21, 2009.
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One small press is winning praise while another is giving books away; Asus is looking to undercut competitors with a budget e-reader; Aussie publishers are planning their own e-book distribution system; Pennsylvania libraries are still suffering; Portland’s biggest daily is getting a new p...
B&N and Adobe are pushing for e-book standardization; an overdue U.K. library study now has a November deadline; Canada’s stimulus plans include library expansion; Anne of Green Gables returns officially and unofficially; Mexico spent decades snooping on García Márquez; and other news. ...
Former head of PEN Canada John Ralston Saul has been elected president of International PEN; Amazon has unveiled a Kindle app for PC users; a TV channel enlists nineteenth-century literary greats as news presenters; independent Indian publishers are banding together; and other news. [More....]
Hewlett-Packard is getting serious about print-on-demand; an Orange County school district is considering an Angelou book ban; Jack Kerouac is the subject of a new documentary with a star-studded soundtrack; don’t mess with Paul Zukofsky’s intellectual property; and other news. [More....]
