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Instead of letting reviewers get on with their job of reviewing, publishers are behaving like anxious children, pulling at the journalist’s sleeve and suggesting what should come next.
Aspiring authors are often stumped when they see agents and editors recommend a “platform” as part of pitching a book.
Blackbird has a previously unpublished Plath poem.
Here, in 245 pages, Anne Carson offers us poetry that is intent on “the undoing of form”.
College-textbook publishers use at least six types of “gimmicks” to jack up the prices of their products and undermine the market in used textbooks, costing a student hundreds of dollars a year.
Although it’s his drawings that hold us – the theatrical poses, the bespoke furniture in penumbral mansions, the malicious topiary – Gorey was also a unique literary stylist.