VIDA have published their 2017 Count, the first of the #MeToo era
Since 2009, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts has been compiling data on the representation of women in literary publications and book reviews. Since 2016, they have also been tracking various… Read more »
Burn This Letter: The Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway
Before his death in July of 1961, Ernest Hemingway wrote a letter to the executors of his estate saying, “It is my wish that none of the letters written by… Read more »
Two For Tuesday: Should Books Be Snackable, Serialized, and Delicious?
Topics discussed: Tim Parks, length, reader feedback (write to us!), Michael Schaub, Ben Carson, thinkpieces, Hillary Kelly, The Way We Publish Now, serialization, cookie cutting (metaphorically), Jonathan Franzen, Harper Lee,… Read more »
John Updike’s trash, re-revisited
John Updike, whose prolificity once memorably led a reader to inquire if he’d “ever had an unpublished thought”, wrote about a lot of things. Which is why it’s easy to… Read more »
Total panda-monium: Leigh Stein’s THE FALLBACK PLAN goes on tour
Last Thursday saw the launch of Melville House’s 200th title, The Fallback Plan by Leigh Stein, a hilarious debut novel that captures the youth zeitgeist and has been wowing the critics. The… 3 / Read more »
How much does The New Yorker pay its poets?
Not much, as it turns out. According to a New York magazine feature by Rachel Friedman, The New Yorker pays just $460 for a 36-line poem. Does anyone pay more?… 4 / Read more »