Penguin and Random House Reach Agreement, Hurricane Sandy Reading List, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Penguin and Random House have reached an agreement to combine—creating the largest book publisher in the world; Flavorpill has an essential stormy weather reading list; Publishers...
View ArticlePage One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
November/December 2012 Staff With so many good books being published every month, some literary titles worth exploring can get lost in the stacks. Page One offers the first lines of a dozen recently...
View ArticleUniversity Presses Feeling the Pinch
November/December 2012 Kevin Nance As financial hardships continue to affect universities and colleges across the country, an increasing number of university presses are facing the threat of...
View ArticleSerious Monkey Business
November/December 2012 Melissa Faliveno One of the few existing literary magazines in translation, Monkey Business is a new journal of Japanese writing, translated into English by founding editors...
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The Written Image: My Ideal Bookshelf
November/December 2012 Staff In this issue we offer a look at My Ideal Bookshelf, a collaboration between artist Jane Mount and editor Thessaly La Force, to be released by Little, Brown in November....
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Q&A: The Oxford American's New Editor
November/December 2012 Kevin Nance Roger D. Hodge, a former Harper's editor and the new editor of the Oxford American, discusses his new role and the future of the esteemed Arkansas-based literary...
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The Color and the Shape of Memory: An Interview With Chris Ware
November/December 2012 Kevin Larimer With his hugely popular graphic novel, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, and now Building Stories, published in October by Pantheon, Chris Ware is drawing...
View ArticleDaily News Is on Hiatus for the Rest of This Week
Staff Due to a weather-related power outage, our New York office is closed this week. We should be up and running next week. Thanks for your patience. Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of...
View ArticleBrian Conn Receives Bard Fiction Prize
Bard College has announced that author Brian Conn will be the recipient of the 2013 Bard Fiction Prize. Conn will receive a $30,000 cash award and a residency at Bard College during the spring 2013...
View ArticleTimothy Donnelly
The author of Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove, 2003) and The Cloud Corporation (Wave, 2010) reads "The New Hymns" as part of the Brooklyn Poets Reading Series on September...
View ArticleOhio University Press Extends Poetry Prize Deadline
Due to the recent effects of Hurricane Sandy, Ohio University Press has extended the deadline for the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize to November 15. The annual competition, which awards a $1,000 cash...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy Relief, Combat Writer’s Block, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff As we recover from the destruction of Hurricane Sandy, GalleyCat lists a few opportunities to volunteer; James McGirk looks at literature of the right-wing; thirteen tips to combat...
View ArticleSam Pink
"And I realized that part of my problem was I visibly resembled an adult." The latest installment of Recommended Reading's Single Sentence Animations is Brandon Ray's animation of a line from "Rontel"...
View ArticleNate Silver Wins, Literary Agent Wishlist, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff With Obama's victory last night, the Los Angeles Times reports another winner was author Nate Silver, who correctly predicted the election outcome; literary agent Janet Reid posted a...
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Kate Hill Cantrill
"I never go searching for inspiration to write, especially when it comes to short stories; if I’m not moved to write I create in some other way, like drawing or painting or designing botanical...
View ArticleTransformative Object
Select one of your poems that needs revision and transform it into a physical object, such as an imaginary map, a collage, a drawing, or a shadow box (for inspiration, check out Joseph Cornell’s shadow...
View ArticleDon't Look Back
In his essay “Don’t Look Back” (Poets & Writers Magazine, November/December 2012), fiction writer Benjamin Percy argues against including backstory when writing short stories. “It’s almost always...
View ArticleFive Fears
Write an essay about the five things that scare you the most. Structure it with numbered section headings that include each thing, such as 1. Fire, 2. Death, 3. Failure, etc.
View ArticleVisiting Julian Fellowes, Banned Chinese Writers, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Simon & Schuster reports its sales were down last quarter, yet earnings rose; Vanity Fair visits with novelist and Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes; crime writer Nancy...
View ArticleAndy Hedges
Texas cowboy poet Andy Hedges recites "The Red Cow" by Larry McWhorter at the twenty-eighth National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. Hedges will return to Elko for next year's event on January...
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