Dusie Kollektiv

Dusie is an online poetry journal featuring the work of emerging as well as established poets (or translations of) from around the world. Based in Switzerland, Dusie will continue to feature what can only be loosely defined as modern poetics and poetic experiments on a somewhat quarterly basis.

Birds, LLC is an independent poetry press based out of Austin, Minneapolis, New York, and Raleigh. Specializing in close author relationships, Birds, LLC believes that great books are a collaboration of editors and authors. Birds, LLC supports readings, events, and podcasts for its authors, believing that poetry demands a human voice to read it, and an audience to hear it. After all, reading is the realist shit ever.

CONJUNCTIONS:55 Urban Arias

On Friday, December 3, at 7 p.m., the literary journal Conjunctionswill celebrate the release of its Fall 2010 issue with a special reading at BookCourt, 163 Court Street. Paul La Farge (The Artist of the Missing, Haussmann, or the Distinction,The Facts of Winter), John Madera (Big Other, Chapbook Review), Stephen O’Connor(Rescue, Here Comes Another Lesson), and Karen Russell (St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Swamplandia!) will read from their stories in Conjunctions:55, Urban Arias.

But what if your heroes are found in the bookstore instead of the ballpark?

Novel-T offers an opportunity to express your support for the all-stars of literature. For those who feel a connection to certain writers or characters–be it Walt Whitman's expansive exultations, Huck Finn's mischievous morality, Kurt Vonnegut's humorous humanism, or Bartleby's seemingly inscrutable insubordination–these super-soft, slim-fit jersey-style tees are a winning way to "wear your read."

Smoking hot books from the Asian/Pacific Island diasporas.

Founded in 1994, Kaya Press has been publishing cutting-edge Asian diasporic writers for

more than 15 years. Kaya and its authors have won numerous awards, including the Gregory Kolovakas Prize for Outstanding New Literary Press, the American Book Award, the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award, the PEN Beyond Margins Open Book Prize, the Asian American Writers' Workshop Award, and the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Prize.

Central Booking

A space in DUMBO, Brooklyn, NYC, focusing on artist's books and prints and their integration into the larger art world.

111 Front Street
Gallery 210
Brooklyn, NY 11201
347-731-6559

Kevin Shelley

Hungry for horseplay? This book is about that. It starts and ends with being moved. In the middle, it's about a journey of character(s). Along the way we indulge in imaginative rhymes and illustration to gratify your good humor. Get your fill of fun. Get your taste of the good stuff. I promise you'll like it.

Assembly

Assembly is a cultural journal featuring a mix of short stories, narrative nonfiction, essays, interviews, and poetry. The journal is published twice a year and explores a wide array of subjects in the social, political and cultural realms. Assembly believes in the earnest voice, the motivated reader, and the long way of doing things.

“Long-form journalism, art and storytelling that respects your intelligence”

— Toronto’s Eye Weekly

Kate's Book Blog: Jane Austen's Fight Club

Kate's Book Blog: Jane Austen's Fight Club: "Jane Austen's Fight Club: 'No corsets, no hatpins, and no crying.' (via Jezebel)"

Issue Five: Available in December

Who is Nick Lantz?

Nick Lantz is a writer living in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. His first book of poetry,We Don’t Know We Don’t Know, won the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference Bakeless Prize and was published by Graywolf Press. His second book, The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House, was selected by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky for the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and was published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO STORYTELLING IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Byron the Lyron

A STORY

by Richard Bausch

She was eighty-four and had lived a long, rich life, and she told her one son, Byron, that she was ready. Byron Mailley wept, putting his head down on her shoulder. Georgia’s shoulder.

They were in her hospital room—the hospital wing of Brighton Creek Farm, the assisted living facility she had resided in over the last decade. She patted the back of his head. That had always been her most charming gesture of affection toward him—since he was nine or ten and learning the complications of being a bookish boy on a street full of rough characters. Her name for them. She had a way of setting all his problems in terms of the books they read together in the evenings, because he couldn’t sleep. The books were all adventure: Hardy Boys, and Nancy Drew, Robert Louis Stevenson, Theodore J. Waldek’s book Lions on the Hunt, written from the point of view of the young lion. Byron the lyron, Georgia called him. It was their little joke, just between them. Byron the lyron had night terrors, panic attacks.

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"Asunder" is Robert's third book, and first short story collection

"Robert Lopez and his writing are original and pure, fearless and hypnotic. He is one of the brave protagonists of American literature." --Michael Kimball, author of Dear Everybody "For a great long while something was broken inside our language. Robert Lopez took what was broken and did something more than simply repair it. He repaired what was broken and broke it again and made it human. Beautiful and ugly and lastingly mortal, our language through Lopez becomes a kind of song. The kind of song we all might sing to bring some laughter from our deathbeds." --David McLendon, Editor of Unsaid

The 2010 National Book Award Winner

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McSweeney's Issue 4

The writers inside include Rachel Cohen, George Saunders, Ben Miller, Lawrence Weschler, Sheila Heti, Haruki Murakami, Rick Moody, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Maliszewski, Paul Collins, Lydia Davis, Denis Johnson, Sarah Vowell, Arthur Bradford, Sean Wilsey, J. Robert Lennon, Amy Fusselman, Nicholas Laughlin, Dan Pope, Gabe Hudson, Marcy Dermansky, John Warner, and Jason Eaton.

ORIGINAL POETRY, UPDATED WEEKLY

Linebreak is a weekly magazine with a bias for good poetry. We look for poems that we wish we had written, poems that take us somewhere we didn’t even know we wanted to go. Submissions of both poetry and prose are welcome throughout the year.

What is a vook?

A vook is a new innovation in reading that blends a well-written book, high-quality video and the power of the Internet into a single, complete story. You can read your book, watch videos that enhance the story and connect with authors and your friends through social media all on one screen, without switching between platforms.

Vooks are available in two formats: As a web-based application you can read on your computer and an application for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad for reading on the go. With the web-based application you don't have to download programs or install software. Just open your favorite browser and start reading and watching in an exciting new way. You can also download and install the mobile applications through the Apple iTunes store and sync them with your Apple mobile device.

What is The Drum?

The Drum, is a non-profit online magazine dedicated to literature in audio form. They publish work from emerging and established writers who value the power of writing out loud.

John Updike Interview

Updike Redux

In a previously unpublished interview, John Updike talks about Nabokov and his other literary heroes, why he wrote a book about a terrorist, and why he never expected to be a novelist.

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Rachel Levitsky in Translation

Thurs. Nov 11, 7:00 PM at King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, New York, NY

Rachel Levitsky reads from her book Neighbor and its Spanish translation (by Valerie Mejer).

Part of the KJCC Poetry Series.

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