Mark Strand, Pulitzer-winning Poet Laureate in 1999, passed away at age 80 on Saturday due to liposarcoma (fat-cell cancer) at his daughter’s house in Brooklyn.
P.D. James, creator of Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries, also known as the “Queen of Crime,” dies at age 94 on Thursday in Oxford, England. Her first work, Cover Her Face, was published in 1962, and her last, Death Comes to Pemberley, in 2013.
Fifteen years ago the musty smell of books and the sounds of vinyl and plastic CDs were the dominating and common elements of a books and media store.
These days, iPads and Kindles go anywhere we have time to read, including sometimes the doctor’s office and even the bathroom. Electronic devices hold hundreds of precious books with fast and easy access. Why waste time, energy and gas to go to an actual library and buy something that will occupy space at home?
Read More“I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.”
It’s Thanksgiving time, and we’d like to be thankful for a group that is rarely appreciated: critics. In the ocean that is the Literary World, some say that the critics are the sharks. Or the barracuda. I prefer to think of them as Killer Whales: massive, frightening and deadly, but also magnificent. And perhaps trapped in the cages of universities and writing programs.
Read MoreAnne Rice, author of the recently published book Prince Lestat, is on book-signing tour. She stopped in Tempe, Arizona this weekend. Pick up her book at Changing Hands.
The National Book Award for fiction was granted to Phil Klay on Wednesday after the debut of his short story collection, Redeployment, based on his experience as a Marine in Iraq.
Only a few weeks until Issue 55 is released! Meanwhile, we are gearing up for our special themed issue: CHAOS. Lauren Mickey interviews our poetry editor, Dorothy Chan, about boy bands, Nylon, and our upcoming issue.
Read MoreThe English translation of The Three-Body Problem, the first of a science fiction trilogy by Liu Cixin, was released on Tuesday by Tor Books.
Warsaw Ghetto, scrapbooks created by Polish author Jewish Mary Berg in 1945, disappeared in 1950, and have surfaced recently to shed light onto the Nazi genocide. The family of Ms. Berg has requested to cancel the auction of her diary.
Read MoreI’ve been obsessed with the Beat movement for a couple of years now, and I’ve always had a love for music. As I began to read Kerouac and Ginsberg, I started to notice similarities both in the style and the subject matter of the writing of some of my favorite artists from the 1960s and 70s. I got so wrapped up in this that I started to do a little bit of research to see if these ideas could be credited in any way.
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