Mrs. Vickers and the case of the vanishing manuscript
When diabetes took her vision away, Dorset native Trish Vickers took to poetry to bring order to her suddenly chaotic life. In time, Mrs. Vickers found that the pen suited… Read more »
Egyptian publishers pushed out of Middle East’s biggest book fair
The status of books and the people that write them as arbiters of dissent appears to be holding strong. As MobyLives wrote yesterday, the London Book Fair has attracted controversy… Read more »
Cutting off Amazon
The New York Times’ David Streitfeld has a profile of Tulsa-based publisher Educational Development Corporation, which in February pulled its 1,800 children’s books off of Amazon. (A move discussed in… Read more »
No Pulitzer Prize for fiction
The Pulitzer Prizes were given out on Monday, with awards going to the Philadelphia Inquirer for public service in journalism, The Stranger’s Eli Sanders for feature writing, and the late Manning Marable’s… 1 / Read more »
Mark Leyner’s The Sugar Frosted Nutsack Turning non-fiction into science fiction Breaking down the Pulitzer Prize winners LBF debates the fate of publishers In defense of China’s publishing industry The… Read more »
Writing for clemency
The Seattle Times ran a front page profile on Monday about a prolific writer whose stories are studied in college programs across the country. Junot Diaz has praised these stories… 1 / Read more »
