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Grace Schulman’s collection of essays, First Loves and Other Adventures, chronicles the lives of others through stories told with poetic exactitude. From the East Hampton Star: Ms. Schulman carefully situates...

Wunderkind James Franco has reported purchased the rights to Holy Land, D.J. Waldie's novel set in 1950s suburbia. Read more about Franco's bookish conquests in the Los Angeles Times's...

Ever thought about inking a little Whitman on your ankle? Perhaps some Neruda across your heart, or something saucy by Bukowski in the lower back tramp stamp area? The genius...

A Wall Street Journal reader wrote to "Dear Book Lover" advice columnist Cynthia Crossen searching for a final book to read when ones days are numbered. She suggested a few...

The poet Olivia Cronk feels that our world of streamlined, linked, easily accessed information is lacking in something human, like the shuffling sounds between songs on a mixtape. Also, poets...

When will people stop perceiving poets as smushy sensitive types who would be better off trading in their writing pajamas and MFAs for pinstripes, cigars, and a job that...

It might seem unusual to define a poet's work by her state of residence, but it's precisely Martha Zweig's "Vermont-y-ness" that distinguishes her latest collection, Monkey Lightening. Rumpus critic Sean Singer deems the batch a...

When was the last time you saw a poet featured on The View? Besides that time Michael Robbins caused Whoopi and Joy to storm out, nobody right? A recently-published collection...

Charles Olson is 100 feet tall. Oh wait, no, he’s 100 years old. Oh wait, no, he would have been a hundred years old, and 100 feet tall,...

The Silver Car Sessions, a new series of interview with poets, literally takes place in a (presumably) silver car. It’s a little like Taxi Cab Confessions but a...