Quill's award too late . . .
Dennis Johnson
Just days after it was announced that it had been nominated for a Libris Award as Small Press Publisher of the Year, the important Canadian literary press The Porcupine’s Quill… Read more »
Just days after it was announced that it had been nominated for a Libris Award as Small Press Publisher of the Year, the important Canadian literary press The Porcupine’s Quill… Read more »
Despite his various addictions and even the fact that he was a suicide, Hunter S. Thompson has been widely lionized, by people from Johnny Depp to Jimmy Carter, and “the… Read more »
Penguin is stepping up its publishing program in India, where it will publish four Hindi titles in April, the first non-English titles in its history, according to report from The… Read more »
As a tie in with Zimbabwe’s national election yesterday—which turned out peaceful, if seriously flawed—Brian Chikwava celebrates well-known Zimbabwe poet Dambudzo Marechera in a Guardian story. Marechera, who died at… Read more »
Robert Creeley, famed as one of the core poets of the influential Black Mountain Poets along with Charles Olson and Denise Levertov, died at age 78 Wednesday while at a… Read more »
Beginning her book tour with a bang, Jane Fonda says sitting at an anti-aircraft gun during her 1972 visit to North Vietnam was “the largest lapse of judgment that I… Read more »
In a move sure to strike terror into the heart of other online booksellers, and represent a solid threat to Amazon.com and others, Oprah Winfrey, whose Oprah’s Book Club has… Read more »
“In a bid to foster a new generation of book buyers, Random House is investing in a private company that promotes literacy using a system that encourages children to read… Read more »