by | Mar 13, 2012 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The New York Times After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses By JULIE BOSMAN Ángel Franco/The New York Times After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print. Those coolly authoritative, gold-lettered reference books that were...
by | Mar 8, 2012 | Literary News
from National Public Radio ‘Lifespan’: What Are The Limits Of Literary License? by TRAVIS LARCHUK When an author writes something that’s supposed to be a true story and readers discover he’s stretched the truth, things can get ugly fast. Recall...
by | Mar 3, 2012 | Literary News
from The Guardian UK Factual fiction: writing in an information age Imaginative writing now inhabits a multi-screeen world, and novels that don’t acknowledge this struggle to reflect our new era by Ewan Morrison – Friday 2 March 2012 08.45 EST A score of...
by | Feb 28, 2012 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from MediaBistro’s GalleyCat Jan Berenstain Has Died By Jason Boog on February 27, 2012 5:07 PM Jan Berenstain, one half of the couple that created The Berenstain Bears book series, passed away this weekend. The series began in 1963 with The Big Honey Hunt. This...
by | Feb 25, 2012 | Literary News
from The New York Times The Man Who Made Publishing a High-Wire Act Casey Kelbaugh for The New York Times In the mostly tweedy, genteel world of book publishing in the 1960s and ’70s, Barney Rosset, who died on Tuesday at 89, was a bit of an outlaw: a raffish,...
by | Feb 16, 2012 | Literary News
from the Santa Cruz Sentinel Pam Houston, the author of the new novel ‘Contents May Have Shifted’ brazenly challenges the lines between fiction and non-fiction By WALLACE BAINE You might think that the name a novelist gives her protagonist is no big deal....
