Category: publishing

“Her poetry – spare, profound, unsentimental, effortlessly transforming the quotidian into the metaphysical, drawing on the powerful themes of time, fate and destiny, yet making them entirely her own – has earned her a near-cult following in Greece. One of her Greek writer contemporaries, Nikos Dimou, has called Ms. Dimoula ‘the best Greek woman poet since Sappho’.”

“The late journalist Anthony Shadid, Los Angeles writer Reyna Grande and the novelist Zadie Smith were among the finalists announced Monday for the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Awards.”

“While we should partly counter this state of affairs with moral suasion, the reality is that a truly successful academic open-access system will have to be based not just on ethics … but on the narcissism of the professoriate.”

“2012 saw 200 libraries shut according to figures from CIPFA, but many fear 2013 could be worse.”

“The poet Christian Ward has said that he had “no intention of deliberately plagiarising” the work of another writer after it was discovered that his prize-winning entry to a poetry competition was lifted “almost word-for-word” from a poem by Helen Mort.”

“Sharon Olds, the US poet whose work has pushed the boundaries of writing about the body, the emotions, and intimacy, was the unanimous choice of the judges for her collection, Stag’s Leap.” The £15,000 award is “for the best new collection published in the UK and Ireland.”

“Condé Nast, whose magazines are battling a punishing business environment, wants to capture more of the film and television profits, which previously went to writers who owned the rights to these works.”

“If you want to get an idea what it looks like, go into an Apple store.”

“Crusoe’s journal is not only a record of despair, but an answer to it. His pen, as much as his ax or his musket, becomes a tool of survival.”

“Facebook fan pages and Twitter accounts for dead authors may become our virtual altars. In the small act of pushing a button to ‘like’ or to ‘follow,’ we are saying these are voices we still need. We are saying ‘keep.'”