Miami Book Fair 2008
The Sun-Sentinel offers an overview of the Miami Book Fair, where Francisco Goldman & Edwidge Danticat will share a stage. (Via.)
The Sun-Sentinel offers an overview of the Miami Book Fair, where Francisco Goldman & Edwidge Danticat will share a stage. (Via.)
Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden) sold wild grapes so she could buy paper and postage for her first story submission.
The Smart Set is a weekly feature, compiled by Lauren Cerand, that usually appears Mondays at 12:30pm and highlights the best of the week to come. Special favor is given to New York’s independent booksellers and venues, and low-cost and free events. Please send details to lauren [at] maudnewton.com by the Thursday prior to publication, with the date in the . . .
From time to time I’m posting bookstore appreciations from readers. Below Drew Johnson, a writer whose fiction has appeared in Harper’s and StoryQuarterly, and is forthcoming in Virginia Quarterly Review, praises Troubadour Books of North Hatfield, Massachusetts. Bob Willig’s Troubadour Books is a plain brown building that sits behind a dirt parking lot, mixed in with houses, tobacco barns, and . . .
Ted Hughes’ letters expose many unfortunate aspects of his character, but also reveal his passionate environmentalism. (Via.)