Literary guru Ira Silverberg, a prominent literary agent, publicist and editor, is the new director of the NEA’s literature division. Silverberg, who starts December 5, acknowledges that the digitization of the book industry requires a new publishing ecosystem.
Surviving the crests and troughs of the bygone decades of confined notions and rigidity, homosexuality in literature has definitely come a long way from an uneven terrain of condemnation and ridicule to a road of acceptability and inclusion
Ngozi Achebe, author of Onaedo: The Blacksmith’s Daughter and the niece of Chinua Achebe, talks about the state of African literature at Africa Awareness Initiative (AAI) conference at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
Prawer makes clear from the outset of this absorbing and accessible investigation that he is not attempting to discuss Marx’s theories of literary criticism but to illuminate the role literature played in Marx’s life and the development of his thinking.
Opponents of Facebook’s advances argue that the social network is changing too much. Opponents of the iPhone 4S complain the phone hasn’t changed enough. Instead of accusing technology, people should reevaluate their social identity and accuse themselves..
Is it time for the Nobel Prize in literature to come from the east? Many of the big names in Asian and Middle Eastern literature, including South Korean poet Ko Un and Syria’s Adonis, Algerian poet Assia Djebar and Israeli author Amos Oz have been mentioned as possible candidates for years, but still haven’t received the prestigious award, now Bob Dylan may get in the way.
African book publishers of children’s books launched an appeal to African authors to write books on local history and in particular, realistic portrayals of men and women’s roles in African society, which are considered taboo subjects.
In a public climate dominated by loud, combative rhetoric, Wisconsin author Jerry Apps values something in short supply today: subtlety. He feels very strongly that the land is alive and needs to be nurtured rather than exploited as a commodity.
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