Article Archive: News and Trends

Inspired by a 1971 novel by Richard Brautigan, the Brautigan Library collects unpublished books, creating a fantastic archive of stories unaffected by publishing trends—and a window into the minds and dreams of its contributing writers.

The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose by Kay Ryan and Conjure Women by Afia Atakora. 

The New York City press annually publishes six to eight books of fiction and nonfiction “by feminists, for everyone.”

The author on the journals that published stories from her collection How to Pronounce Knife.

An author recommends five journals that published poems from his debut collection, The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer.

The author of The House on Mango Street on the origins and impact of the Macondo Writers Workshop, which has brought together writers who are activists for twenty-five years. 

A round-up of three new anthologies, including River Teeth: Twenty Years of Creative Nonfiction and Poems From the Edge of Extinction: An Anthology of Poetry in Endangered Languages. 

Artist Basia Irland carves book sculptures out of ice and embeds them with seeds that populate riverbanks when the sculptures melt. 

The New Orleans press publishes four or five poetry titles a year in an eclectic range of styles.