The Brooklyn Book Overload (Festival)

This year’s Brooklyn Book Festival is so popular that it is actually impossible to attend a party, and will probably be impossible to go to any of the panels because of the wall of bodies.  Does this mean that literature is making a come back?  I think that will...

I didn’t know Grace Paley was so interesting

An excerpt from Ann Patchett’s “The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life” gives us some interesting insight on Grace Paley as a woman and a teacher. Can that burglar story possibly be real?  Does it matter? From...

Book Trailer We Like

The concept of book trailers really bugs me, but I know we have to make them now. This guy’s is perfect. Great Book Trailer

Free Quintan Ana Wikswo Show in NYC

The literary bunch at Drunken Boat is co-sponsoring an event with the talented Quintan Ana Wikswo and Yeshiva University Museum When? 6:30pm, September 12th Where? Yeshiva University Museum, 15 West 16th St, NYC Tickets? FREE, but you need to book ahead. Click here!...

First Poetry Chapbook Selected

We have selected our first poetry chapbook to publish with Big Wonderful Press: Landscaping for Wildlife By Jen Karetnick. We are excited and hope to add the cover and more information to the website soon. Big Wonderful Press is reading submissions now in multiple...