What do Twitterers want to read?
Valerie Merians
In case you missed it, as I certainly did, Wired magazine is having a “One Book, One Twitter” contest. Jeff Howe reports here on the findings, “I spent a good… 1 / Read more »
In case you missed it, as I certainly did, Wired magazine is having a “One Book, One Twitter” contest. Jeff Howe reports here on the findings, “I spent a good… 1 / Read more »
With the industry settled back into routine five days after the close of BookExpo America, two carefully considered and closely observed takes on the convention put it in perspective: Says… Read more »
Inspired by the upcoming BookExpo America—the U.S. book industry’s biggest convention of the year — retiring Time Warner Book Group head Laurence Kirshbaum is struck by the hoopla: “When I… Read more »
For the first time in its 32-year history, with over 400 readings during that time, the prestigious Chicago Poetry Center had to cancel a reading last week. As a notice… Read more »
Caro Llewellyn, director of the Sydney Writers’ Festival, speaks about her work with the festival in an interview published by The Sydney Morning Herald. The festival, which runs from May… Read more »
In lower Manhattan, a new reading series has launched that celebrates “clunky sentences and mixed metaphors, self-indulgent prose and just plain old bad writing.” The Lit Lite series is the… Read more »
An audio archive of events from the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, held in late April, is now available for free download on the PEN American Center’s website.… Read more »
The massive Tehran Book Fair “has pretty much something for everyone: Thomas the Tank Engine, interior decorating, Microsoft Windows programming, How to Kill an Israeli and Jean-Paul Sartre,” according to… Read more »
Novelists Grant Bailie, Ranbir Sidhu, and Laurie Stone are now confined to huts inside the Flux Factory, an artists’ collective in Queens, New York. According to a New York Times… Read more »
It’s an annual event, but this year the “readathon” in Madrid of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes has been bolstered by the general “Quixote Madness” sweeping… Read more »