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The Whitney Opens With a Winner
LET’S CUT TO THE CHASE: the Whitney Museum of American Art’s inaugural show in…
Frida Kahlo’s Love Letters Give Glimpse Into The Guarded Artist’s Private Life
THE RENOWNED MEXICAN ARTIST wasn’t pining for her then husband, Diego Rivera. The love…
‘Hip-Hop Revolution: Photographs’ chronicles the rise of rap music
THE EARLY DAYS OF HIP-HOP come alive in all their beautiful, vivid detail at…
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The Light of the World
Elizabeth Alexander Grand Central Publishing, 2015 224 pp; ISBN-13: 978-1455599875 FOUR DAYS AFTER HIS…
The Fishermen
Chigozie Obioma Little, Brown and Company, 2015 304 pp; ISBN-13: 978-0316338370 ONE OF THE…
Digest
Gregory Pardlo Four Way (Stahlecker Selections), 2014 84 pp; ISBN-13: 978-1935536505 IN GREGORY PARDLO’S…
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Publishing’s Digital Disruption Hasn’t Even Started
IMPERCEPTIBLE, INVISIBLE ALMOST, but it was there at the London Book Fair this year—publishers…
Playster Streaming Service to Offer Simon & Schuster Ebooks
PLAYSTER, A DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA STREAMING PLATFORM, has announced a content deal with one of…
Kobo Unveils New E-Reader to Take on Kindle Voyage
KOBO LAUNCHES ITS LATEST E-READER, the Kobo Glo HD, which it bills as a device…
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Why the VIDA Count Matters
The 2014 VIDA Count — released this week — showed that ‘women buy two-thirds…
The Case For Libraries
PUBLISHERS ARE RUNNING OUT OF SPACE. Not in their headquarters, some of which are…
Univ. of Minnesota Press Gets Interactive with Scholarly Books
THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS ANNOUNCED earlier this week that it, with the GC…
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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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Antosh Wojcik Named Winner of Roundhouse’s Poetry Slam
UK poet Antosh Wojci recently won the 2013 Roundhouse Poetry Slam sponsored by Roundhouse,…
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…
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Toni Morrison’s New Novel Is Best Read With Her Backlist In Mind
America's only living Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Toni Morrison, offers her 11th novel, God Help The Child.…
Publishing’s Digital Disruption Hasn’t Even Started
IMPERCEPTIBLE, INVISIBLE ALMOST, but it was there at the London Book Fair this year—publishers quietly clapping…
‘Hip-Hop Revolution: Photographs’ chronicles the rise of rap music
THE EARLY DAYS OF HIP-HOP come alive in all their beautiful, vivid detail at the newly…
I read books by only minority authors for a year. It showed me just how white our reading world is.
IN 2014, I DECIDED THAT FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR, I would not read books written by…
Why Is An Anonymous Brooklyn Street Artist Producing Anti-Hillary Clinton Posters?
AS HILLARY CLINTON PREPARED to formally launch her presidential campaign on Sunday afternoon, a Brooklyn street…
Passing Through
THE TENANT IN THE GROUND FLOOR APARTMENT at 315 Second Avenue lived alone. She was long…
How To Finish Your Damn Book
AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR I WROTE a post for that treasure trove of writing…
Playster Streaming Service to Offer Simon & Schuster Ebooks
PLAYSTER, A DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA STREAMING PLATFORM, has announced a content deal with one of the world’s…
Kobo Unveils New E-Reader to Take on Kindle Voyage
KOBO LAUNCHES ITS LATEST E-READER, the Kobo Glo HD, which it bills as a device featuring “the…
Meryl Streep Funds Screenwriting Lab For Women Over 40
Meryl Streep has funded a screenwriters lab for women writers over 40, to be run by…
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Why the VIDA Count Matters
The 2014 VIDA Count — released this week — showed that ‘women buy two-thirds of books sold but magazine reviews are centred on male…
The Case For Libraries
PUBLISHERS ARE RUNNING OUT OF SPACE. Not in their headquarters, some of which are larger and more imposing than ever, but in retail. The…
Univ. of Minnesota Press Gets Interactive wi…
THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS ANNOUNCED earlier this week that it, with the GC Digital Scholarship Lab at the Graduate Center of the City…
How the Publishing Industry Has Learned to T…
THE CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW SOCIAL MEDIA is changing publishing has been going on since the dawn of social media. Ten years ago, prognosticators were…
Ten Reasons for Authors to Blog
ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I’M MOST ASKED IS “how do you find time to write a blog?” I can answer this quite simply –…
HC, Amazon Reach Terms Agreement
HARPERCOLLINS HAS BECOME THE LATEST PUBLISHER to reach an agreement with Amazon over sales terms. The publisher issued a statement late Monday that read:…
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Self-Publishing & Merchandising: A Book’s Interior Design
WHEN WE SPEAK OF BOOKS, we mostly speak of them as one of two things: an object, made up of surfaces and contours…
Toni Morrison’s New Novel Is Best Read With Her Backlist In Mind
America's only living Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Toni Morrison, offers her 11th novel, God Help The Child.…
I read books by only minority authors for a year. It showed me just how white our reading world is.
IN 2014, I DECIDED THAT FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR, I would not read books written by white authors. My goal was to address…
Passing Through
THE TENANT IN THE GROUND FLOOR APARTMENT at 315 Second Avenue lived alone. She was long divorced, had no children, and did not…
Meryl Streep Funds Screenwriting Lab For Women Over 40
Meryl Streep has funded a screenwriters lab for women writers over 40, to be run by New York Women in Film and Television…
British history alive and kicking at Morley Literature Festival
Literature lovers lined their stomachs with a three-course lunch in Tingley before stomaching a dollop of political and historical insight from Morley Literature…
Why deny young readers the pleasures of literature?
Hard to believe that in 2013 some people are still trying to keep students from reading certain books. Not by writing unflattering reviews…
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Elizabeth Alexander Grand Central Publishing, 2015 224 pp; ISBN-13: 978-1455599875 FOUR DAYS AFTER HIS 50TH BIRTHDAY PARTY, Elizabeth Alexander’s husband, Ficre Ghebreyesus, dropped dead of a heart attack…
Chigozie Obioma Little, Brown and Company, 2015 304 pp; ISBN-13: 978-0316338370 ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE LITERARY DEVELOPMENTS of the past decade has been the more or less…
Gregory Pardlo Four Way (Stahlecker Selections), 2014 84 pp; ISBN-13: 978-1935536505 IN GREGORY PARDLO’S LATEST BOOK, Digest, he manages an incredible balancing act. His poems are narrative and…
Mary Kay Vaughan Duke University Press Books, 2014 pp. 304; ISBN-13: 978-0822357810 TEN YEARS AGO, historian Mary Kay Vaughan set out to research the learning experiences of youth…
Nelson A Denis Nation Books, 2015 400 pp; ISBN-13: 978-1568585017 April 21 MARKS THE 50th anniversary of the death of Pedro Albizu Campos. Most Americans likely haven’t heard…
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Thoughts on Balancing a Day Job, Family, and the Writing Life
DO YOU NEED TWENTY-SEVEN HOURS in your day to do everything? Sorry, I can’t give your day extra hours. What I can provide are some…
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Publishing’s Digital Disruption Hasn’t Even Started
IMPERCEPTIBLE, INVISIBLE ALMOST, but it was there at the London Book Fair this year—publishers quietly clapping each other on the back and breathing a collective sigh of relief:…
Playster Streaming Service to Offer Simon & Schuster Ebooks
PLAYSTER, A DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA STREAMING PLATFORM, has announced a content deal with one of the world’s largest book publishers, Simon & Schuster. The agreement provides unlimited access to…
Kobo Unveils New E-Reader to Take on Kindle Voyage
KOBO LAUNCHES ITS LATEST E-READER, the Kobo Glo HD, which it bills as a device featuring “the highest resolution screen available on the market, at the lowest price.” At…
The Abomination of Ebooks: They Price People Out of Reading
This is not one of those rants about missing the texture, touch, colors, whatever of paper contrasted with the sterility of reading on a tablet. No, the real…
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Antosh Wojcik Named Winner of Roundhouse’s Poetry Slam
UK poet Antosh Wojci recently won the 2013 Roundhouse Poetry Slam sponsored by Roundhouse, a cultural venue and organization in the UK. Over two weeks…
Who is Lacey Roop?
Obasi Davis Places Third Place at Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam Finals 2012
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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…
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Tony Medina Publishes Latest Collection of Poetry: An Onion of Wars
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The Whitney Opens With a Winner
LET’S CUT TO THE CHASE: the Whitney Museum of American Art’s inaugural show in its new…
Frida Kahlo’s Love Letters Give Glimpse Into The Guarded Artist’s Private Life
‘Hip-Hop Revolution: Photographs’ chronicles the rise of rap music
Why Is An Anonymous Brooklyn Street Artist Producing Anti-Hillary Clinton Posters?
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HarperCollins Announces BookSmash Winners
HarperCollins revealed the winners of its BookSmash Challenge, a contest that invited developers to create new…