With BookExpo America set to open in Chicago this week, American Booksellers Association CEO Oren Teicher reported to the AP a 63-store increase in membership from last year. The jump marks the seventh straight year that the ABA has added to its ranks. more »
FSG Names McDonald Head of Experimental Imprint
Sean McDonald has been appointed publisher of MCD/FSG, a new imprint that the company said will explore ways FSG can expand upon how, and what, it publishes. Daphne Durham, former head of Amazon Publishing, has been named executive editor. more »
Cartoonist R. Crumb Returns with 'Art and Beauty' in July
The publishing operation of New York's David Zwirner Gallery will publish the entire run of R. Crumb's 'Art and Beauty' magazines in a hardcover edition. more » »
PEN Urges
Release of Egyptian Author: PEN America has gathered signatures
from roughly 120 writers on a letter urging Egypt to release the imprisoned
writer Ahmed Naji.
An Interview
with Louise Erdrich: The award-winning writer and bookstore
owner discusses her new book, the lives of Native Americans, and more.
O'Brien: Is
Literature a "Dying Animal"?: The Irish writer asks
herself if, in 20 years time, literature will still prove "an essential
branch of life."
Anton Chekhov,
Pre-Postmodernist: Why the famed Russian writer's experimental
work served as a precursor to postmodernism.
James Baldwin on
Self-Imprisonment: At 'Brain Pickings,' Maria Popova rounds up
some of the writer's quotes on the nature of freedom.
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