A wine-stained first edition of the literary magazine founded by Ted Hughes and his Cambridge friends, including a rare recording of Plath and Hughes talking about their relationship, has been acquired by the British Library.
A critic for Newsweek, Malcolm Jones, recently published an online piece suggesting that recent writers and subjects selected for inclusion in Library of America are not worthy of the honor. To some degree, Jones is guilty of garden variety snobbery–biases at least as old as those held by 1890s librarians who wanted to keep the patrons from wasting there time on fiction.
In China, young female literature has come into being to meet the growing market with many publishers and websites more than ready to cash in for a slice of the pie, which has in turn boosted the market.
Whether or not you think the iPad is the “magical and revolutionary device” Apple (AAPL) wants you to believe it is, the tablet computer has people excited about digital reading like never before: 250,000 e-book downloads in the iPad’s first 24 hours are serious business.
Günter Grass and Yasar Kemal, two living legends of literature, took part in a special panel discussion to explore contemporary literature, introducing the work of around 50 authors from eight European Union countries.
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From cigarette packet-sized classics to Don Quixote on the iPhone, Jonathan Gibbs charts the past and future of compact literature.
Terezia Mora overcame language barriers to capture the human condition in her award-winning German novels. The Hungarian-born is recognized with this year’s Chamisso Prize for non-native German authors.
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