Snap: Beat Poet Enthusiast and co-founder of City Light Books & Publishing Lawrence Ferlinghetti has sold his travel journals to Liveright Publishing. With plans to release in the fall of 2015, the journals show the more political side of Ferlinghetti and his encounters with such poets and movement leaders as Pablo Neruda, Ezra Pound, Ernesto … Continue reading Book World Buzz
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Weekend Reading
New online lit mag! New online lit mag! New online lit mag! Midnight Breakfast. New short fiction from Sara Novic in Guernica. From the vault: "The Dinner Party", a short story by Joshua Ferris published in The New Yorker in 2008. (Ben's about to begin Ferris's upcoming novel, To Rise Again At a Decent Hour, and wanted to warm up. Shameless plug: Ferris … Continue reading Weekend Reading
Book World Buzz
YA Gotta Hear This: Big news! The Austin Teen Book Festival is now the Texas Teen Book Festival. ATBF has partnered with the Texas Book Festival and St. Edward's University. We're thrilled as ever to be a part of this awesome annual event and very excited for the new partnerships! The Texas Teen Book Festival is … Continue reading Book World Buzz
Billboard Worthy
Fellow book lovers may recall a certain billboard that was all the rage back in the Fall of 2011: Indeed, Mr. Eugenides and his vest (and their novel, The Marriage Plot) caused quite a stir. Well, now it's a new year, a new Fall season, and we have a new novelist we have officially deemed Billboard Worthy: … Continue reading Billboard Worthy
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