April 18, 2009
By Rigoberto Gonzalez
Here’s an interesting article by a young writer, Caleb Das, who takes a practical approach to saving the literary magazine. This topic has been of much interest lately, especially as
April 17, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Just cast my Webby votes for favorites like The Daily Beast (go, Book Beast!), Truthdig (for the book reviews alone), Kurt Andersen’s VSL (often first buzz on books like Geoff
April 15, 2009
By Rigoberto Gonzalez
I attended a forum recently in which MFA graduate students impressed upon the audience the importance of reading blogs as a way to stay in the loop and keep abreast
April 13, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
John Ashbery, winner of the first National Book Critics Circle award in poetry in 1975, was center stage at The New School at this year’s NBCC awards finalists’ reading, reading
April 12, 2009
By Eric Banks
At the LA Times blog Jacket Copy, Caroline Kellogg follows the lead of NBCC member Bethanne Patrick in reporting on Amazon’s apparently new policy of stripping the sales rankings from
April 10, 2009
By Eric Banks
Congratulations to Annette Gordon-Reed and Andrew X. Pham, both of whom were named this week as 2009 Fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Gordon-Reed’s The Hemingses of Monticello:
April 9, 2009
By Craig Morgan Teicher
A couple of weeks ago, Poetryfoundation.org, the web-exclusive publication of the Poetry Foundation, which publishes Poetry magazine, ran an article by poet and editor Matthew Zapruder entitled Show Your Work
March 26, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Salman Rushdie kicked off PEN World Voices Festival at the Instituto Cervantes in New York yesterday, remembering how the fest “began five years ago out of deep concern…that the conversation
March 18, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Editor and Publisher reports that more than half of the top 30 newspaper Websites achieved double-digit increases over last year in February, with the Orlando Sentinel up 57 percent to
March 17, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
CJR [“Sleepless in Seattle”] talks to staffers at Hearst’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer as their publication ceases and a new “experiment” begins. Also, “All eyes are on Seattle,” says Scott Karp at