Category: publishing

The school district’s administration sent out a memo asking that Marjane Satrapi’s award-winning graphic memoir be removed entirely from one middle school – and, predictably, anti-censorship protests ensued. The clarifications the district sent out in response, while backing away from any outright ban, may have made things worse.

“Poet Marie Ponsot will be awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in June, it was announced Monday. The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which comes with an award of $100,000, is given to a poet for lifetime achievement. Ponsot’s career began in the 1950s; her book True Minds was the first thing City Lights published after Allen Ginsberg’s Howl.”

“Despite a major shift in the genre in the late 1980s and early 1990s that saw the near-disappearance of rape and the emergence of much stronger, more modern heroines, the idea remains that feminists and romance readers exist on opposite ends of the spectrum. This is not the case.”

“In a court ruling that has major implications for used good merchants across the country, the Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision that forbid a textbook seller from reselling textbooks that he had purchased from overseas.”

“It does seem like some technologies are better suited for some genres. Maybe the Web is really well suited to poetry and the Kindle is really well suited to prose.”

In their complaint, the litigants claimed they would not have purchased Armstrong’s autobiographies “It’s Not About the Bike” (2000) and “Every Second Counts” (2003) had they known that the books were built on a foundation of lies.

“Like its daily newspaper counterpart, the alt-weekly has enjoyed a terrible half-decade of plummeting revenues, circulation and page counts in the 100-plus markets currently served.”

“In the end, I bought my wife a pretty dress to say thank you for putting up with me and my fiscally idiotic quest to write books. I also did the most rock star thing imaginable for a stay-at-home-dad/recipient-of-a-famous-cease-and-desist: I used the money to send my kid to daycare two days a week so I can have more time to write.”

The sisters probably weren’t as innocent or unworldly as Charlotte claimed after the deaths of Emily and Anne – and their books are “shocking, erotic, profoundly moving.”

So says famous atheist Philip Pullman, author of the children’s His Dark Materials series.