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A Climate Change in the Art World?
The art community is digging out, drying off, counting its losses, helping its neighbors–and…
Dallas Museum of Art takes bold step of offering free general admission AND free memberships
Beginning Jan. 21, the Dallas Museum of Art will take the unprecedented step of…
High-wire art: contemporary commissions to replace Olympic Rings in St Pancras
Lucy and Jorge Orta have been chosen to create the first monumental work to…
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The Curfew
A Vintage Contemporaries Original, June 2011 www.vintagebooks.com Jesse Ball $15.00; 198 pp.; ISBN 978-0-307-73985-8…
The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry
IN RECENT YEARS, ANTHOLOGIES have become the bedrock of the literary industry. They are…
Breaking Ground: Anthology of Puerto Rican Women Writers in New York 1980-2012
SINCE THE 1960s the number of Latina writers has grown considerably, adding a new…
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Barnes & Noble Decides That Purchased Ebooks Are Only Yours Until Your Credit Card Expires
DRM rears its ugly, malformed, malignant, cross-eyed head again. Despite the fact that, as…
$25 tablets, $2 mobile data plans, and zero margins–how the internet is about to gain 3 billion new users
Suneet Tuli, CEO of Datawind, maker of the world’s cheapest tablet computer, is going…
The future of the internet is intelligent machines
Thanks to the internet, almost anything consumers might want is just a click away.…
- Inside Publishing
Self-publishing industry explodes, brings rewards, challenges
Thanks to the Web and the emergence of e-books, self-publishing has exploded, bringing its…
Books in Browsers 2012: A Publishing Industry Rushing into the Future
The Books in Browsers (BiB) conference distinguishes itself from other conferences is because of…
Ignore the Doomsayers: The Book Industry Is Actually Adapting Well
Numbers show that the publishing industry is handling the rise of e-readers better than…
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Finding the Real Papo in Jesús Papoleto Meléndez
When I first met Jesús Papoleto Meléndez (affectionately known as “Papo”) thirteen years ago,…
Ronny Someck
Ronny Someck’s poetry, which has both a local and a universal flavor, has the…
Tara Betts
Tara Betts is the author of the poetry collection Arc and Hue, released on…
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Who is Lacey Roop?
Who is Lacey Roop? Born and raised in Mississippi, Roop has become one…
Obasi Davis Places Third Place at Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam Finals 2012
Teenager Obasi Davis performs at Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam on April 27, 2012…
Simon Armitage: ‘poetry is a form of dissent’ video interview
Poet and novelist Simon Armitage has been writing about Britain for decades now. In…
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Out Of Rubble: How Art Helps Us Recast 9/11 and Imagine a Peaceful World
I COME FROM A FAMILY OF ARTISTSand activists and have long made paintings that…
Advice To A Young Poet
FIRST OF ALL, MY DEAR YOUNG PERSON, you must take an MFA degree in…
A Minority’s Minorities
PERHAPS BECAUSE I DESCEND FROM A INTRAMIXED JEWISH MARRIAGE, so to speak, I've always…
Barnes & Noble Decides That Purchased Ebooks Are Only Yours Until Your Credit Card Expires
DRM rears its ugly, malformed, malignant, cross-eyed head again. Despite the fact that, as Cory Doctorow…
$25 tablets, $2 mobile data plans, and zero margins–how the internet is about to gain 3 billion new users
Suneet Tuli, CEO of Datawind, maker of the world’s cheapest tablet computer, is going after the…
The future of the internet is intelligent machines
Thanks to the internet, almost anything consumers might want is just a click away. But for…
Cyber-Babbittry: Conventionality and Banality Are Alive and Well on the Internet
Millions engage in a bustling, active world. Are we living out the sin of Sinclair…
The Next New Thing
"Digital Humanities" is a rather amorphous term that appears to cover just about any consideration of…
Realizing the true potential of digital reading
The world of digital reading is fundamentally changing the way we read books and Is offering…
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Self-publishing industry explodes, brings re…
Thanks to the Web and the emergence of e-books, self-publishing has exploded, bringing its own set of rewards and challenges to established and aspiring…
Books in Browsers 2012: A Publishing Industr…
The Books in Browsers (BiB) conference distinguishes itself from other conferences is because of its focus on the software engineers and user experience designers…
Ignore the Doomsayers: The Book Industry Is …
Numbers show that the publishing industry is handling the rise of e-readers better than what folk knowledge might suggest.…
With new digital imprints, Random House taps…
Random House is launching three new digital-only imprints for mystery, “new adult” and science fiction titles, and is revamping a fourth digital imprint focused…
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Icelandic-Canadian literature as 21st-century sagas
Filmmaker Guy Maddin is helping to create the new Icelandic mythologies in Canada.…
The ‘unfilmable’ becomes filmable as slew of sweeping books leap to big screen
It would appear that labelling a book unfilmable is a sure-fire way to get a filmmaker's attention. How else to explain the…
Amazon spoof among indie booksellers’ Christmas picks
Booksellers are poking fun at Amazon with a new Christmas campaign pushing the tongue-in-cheek title 101 Uses of a Dead Kindle. Seasonal selection…
A literary prize for Erdrich—at last
Louise Erdrich has won the National Book Award in fiction for The Round House, her thirteenth novel…
Goodwill in Brooklyn: On Donating Books to Unexpected Readers
Jessica Kane shares the agony and ecstasy of donating books. …
A new chapter for Iranian literature, now in Hebrew
Iranian-born Orly Noy is giving Israelis their first taste of contemporary Persian literature, introducing them to Iranian humor and hoping to demonstrate 'how…
SMU students bring African American literature off the page and onto the stage
Southern Methodist University's graduate students perform African American Fiction: Interpretation of African American Literature through spoken word.…
Book Reviews View all
A Vintage Contemporaries Original, June 2011 www.vintagebooks.com Jesse Ball $15.00; 198 pp.; ISBN 978-0-307-73985-8 I’D JUST CONSUMED Murakami’s 1Q84 – originally a three-volume publication in its native Japanese…
IN RECENT YEARS, ANTHOLOGIES have become the bedrock of the literary industry. They are used as teaching tools and as historical touchstones. But as we peruse these comprehensive…
SINCE THE 1960s the number of Latina writers has grown considerably, adding a new spice to the U.S. literary panorama and to feminine/feminist literature. Their work has been…
FOR THE LAST DECADES, a narrative of Latino identity in the U.S. went something like this: Migration from Latin nations created the conditions for enclaves of Mexicans, Puerto…
ELIZABETH C. RAMÍREZ and Catherine Casiano present a whirlwind of Latina playwrights in La Voz Latina. At times this collection may seem chaotic in selection but in the…
Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing
Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicano/a Literature
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Organizations & Associations
Joining a good literary organization can help you network with veteran published writers, keep on top of the latest literary trends, inform you of fresh…
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Barnes & Noble Decides That Purchased Ebooks Are Only Yours Until Your Credit Card Expires
DRM rears its ugly, malformed, malignant, cross-eyed head again. Despite the fact that, as Cory Doctorow so aptly put it, no one has ever purchased anything because it…
$25 tablets, $2 mobile data plans, and zero margins–how the internet is about to gain 3 billion new users
Suneet Tuli, CEO of Datawind, maker of the world’s cheapest tablet computer, is going after the three billion people who have everything they need to connect to the…
The future of the internet is intelligent machines
Thanks to the internet, almost anything consumers might want is just a click away. But for businesses, the gains have been much less dramatic. That is about to…
Cyber-Babbittry: Conventionality and Banality Are Alive and Well on the Internet
Millions engage in a bustling, active world. Are we living out the sin of Sinclair Lewis' Babbittry?…
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Who is Lacey Roop?
Who is Lacey Roop? Born and raised in Mississippi, Roop has become one of Austin, Texas’ biggest spoken word billie-bad-asses.…
Obasi Davis Places Third Place at Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam Finals 2012
Simon Armitage: ‘poetry is a form of dissent’ video interview
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Finding the Real Papo in Jesús Papoleto Meléndez
When I first met Jesús Papoleto Meléndez (affectionately known as “Papo”) thirteen years ago, it didn’t…
Ronny Someck
Tara Betts
Tony Medina Publishes Latest Collection of Poetry: An Onion of Wars
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A Climate Change in the Art World?
The art community is digging out, drying off, counting its losses, helping its neighbors–and starting to…
Dallas Museum of Art takes bold step of offering free general admission AND free memberships
High-wire art: contemporary commissions to replace Olympic Rings in St Pancras
Read This: Sumo
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This and That :: Week of November 25th
Juicy tidbits from the publishing industry. You got it here first!…
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