WTAW Press has just released its 2019 titles, Chimerica, the debut novel from Anita Fellicelli, and Like Water and Other Stories, the English-language debut of Olga Zilberbourg. In Chimerica, by Anita Felicelli (Love Songs of a Lost Continent), down-on-her-luck Tamil American trial lawyer Maya Ramesh fights to save a painted […]
We all have heard the stories about great works being rejected by publishers. Many of these stories are humorous because they are in the past, and the recipient or the target of those rejections have become celebrated. We laugh – or if we are unkind, we snicker – at the […]
Kino Jürgen Fauth Atticus Books ISBN# 978-0983208075 — ♦ — Over the past year there have been a number of movies released that focused on the era of silent films and their impact on modern movies and moviemaking in general. The movie Hugo was nominated for an Academy Award stresses […]
If you haven’t heard of or read anything by Roxane Gay before, then you are definitely missing out. If short fiction had an armed forces, then she just might be the colonel. If there is a fiction magazine out there, online or otherwise, with a piece by her inside it, […]
In a world where brick and mortar book stores are being boarded up and turned into laundromats with free wifi and digital book and eBook sales are on the rise, one man has the courage, nay, the audacity to forge his own literary path. Meet Matt Prins, the creator of the site […]
In Jennifer Miller’s article “Novel Ideas” in the September 2011 issue of Fast Company, she reports that 400 new independent bookstores have opened in the past six years. How do they all compete with Barnes and Nobles, Amazon, and e-books? J. Michael Kenny has been working hard to answer that […]
When I was a boy there was a small bookstore in the shopping center across the street from my development. My middle-aged brain had some difficulty retrieving the name, but a quick appeal to my Facebook community quickly solved that problem. Bookland (Thanks Ann!) was within easy walking distance of my house. […]
A couple years ago my brother and his wife had a baby. A little boy. I became an uncle and that baby is my nephew. It’s almost impossible not to have a positive association with the word. Meet Mudluscious Press’ Nephew, an imprint series that, “publishes linguistically jagged, pocket-sized titles […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.