Oprah's Book Club is Back, Smell Like Your Favorite Novel, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Oprah's Book Club is back—her first pick is Cheryl Strayed's Wild; PEN American Center's Executive Director Steven Isenberg announced he'll leave the organization at the end of 2012;...
View ArticleAssembly Required
Write a poem in which you give the reader directions about how to assemble an object or an emotional experience. Think of the various sensory stimuli your directions provide and experiment with the...
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When you get right down to it, writing is (or used to be) all about putting marks on a piece of paper. And while there are plenty of inspiring photographs and videos celebrating the typewriter, this...
View ArticleColm Tóibín, Farzana Doctor Among Lammy Winners
The twenty-fourth annual Lambda Literary Awards for LGBT literature, also known as the Lammys, were announced last night at a ceremony in New York City, where authors rubbed elbows with luminaries in...
View ArticleKobo Announces New Self-Publishing Platform, Gatsby-Inspired Fashion, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Amazon Publishing intends to purchase genre publisher Avalon Books, including its back catalog of three thousand titles; filmmaker John Waters hitchhiked across the United States...
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Anne-Marie Kinney
kinney.jpg “Any story I’m working on begins with a mood—a tone, an atmosphere for the story to grow out of—and that mood, for me, is always informed by music. So, very early on, I settle on a...
View ArticleFollow Your Nose
Write a story that begins with a description of a distinct scent. Devote at least one paragraph to describing the smell, whether it’s the layered aroma of a well-cooked meal or something distressingly...
View ArticleThomas Pynchon E-Books, Sylvia Plath's Drawings, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Thomas Pynchon has reached an agreement with Penguin Press to publish his entire backlist of titles as e-books; novelist Alix Ohlin writes of childhood synesthesia and how the visual...
View ArticleNora Roberts Responds to Nora A. Roberts, Syrian Poet Faraj Bayrakdar on...
Evan Smith Rakoff GalleyCat's recent list of self-published best sellers included SpellBound Cafe by Nora A. Roberts—a pen name that attempts to fool readers into mistakenly believing the book is by...
View ArticleW02-21-12CosumnesRiverCollege-Benaron
I think my message is important—I write about social justice—and I want to get it out into schools as much as possible. You help make that possible. When students from war-torn countries thank me for...
View ArticleBloomsday
For lovers of Irish literature, and the work of James Joyce in particular, June 16 is a special day. Bloomsday is a celebration of the life of the Irish author on the day in which the events of his...
View ArticlePersonalize the Historic
Research the news for an event or incident that occured during your life or during the life of a close relative. It could be an historic sports event involving your home team, a crime that happened in...
View ArticleSelf-Published Author Lands Seven-Figure Deal, Strange World of Fan Fiction,...
Evan Smith Rakoff Net sales for the first quarter of 2012 are down for adult hardcovers, and up for e-books; the Wall Street Journal takes a look at the strange world of fan fiction; Nathan Englander...
View ArticleAmazilla vs. Barnes Kong
There's nothing understated about this one. Check out Rebecca Migdal's trailer for Andrew Laties's Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Bookstores Represent Everything You Want to Fight for, From Free Speech to...
View ArticlePublishAmerica Lawsuit, Drunk Texts by Famous Authors, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff A group of writers unhappy with PublishAmerica have filed a lawsuit alleging it charges fees for services that traditional publishers perform at no cost; entrepreneur Seth Godin...
View ArticleThe Old Man and the Sea
Check out German designer Marcel Schindler's stop-motion adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, set to the song "Sail" by Awolnation, that uniquely captures Santiago's epic struggle...
View ArticlePoetry to Fall From the Sky in London, E-book Readers Don't Borrow Digital...
The U.S. government claims Apple is trying to rush the antitrust lawsuit filed against it, Poetry Parnassus plans to drop 100,000 poems from a helicopter over London, only 12 percent of e-book readers...
View ArticleDebut Novelist Wins Major Australian Award
Australia's prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award went this year to debut novelist Anna Funder for her best-seller All That I Am (Harper). Magic Word: XQZZQX read more
View ArticleDylan Hicks's "West Texas Winds"
Dylan Hicks's "Now You Are a Country Deejay in Berlin" URL: http://www.pw.org/files/01_west_texas_winds.mp3 Songwriter and musician Dylan Hicks, whose debut novel, Boarded Windows, was published in...
View ArticleDylan Hicks's "Now You Are a Country Deejay in Berlin"
Dylan Hicks's "West Texas Winds" URL: http://www.pw.org/files/02_now_you_are_a_country_deejay_in_berlin.mp3 Songwriter and musician Dylan Hicks, whose debut novel, Boarded Windows, was published in...
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