New Yorker editor David Remnick‘s biography of President Obama will be released April 6, with a first printing of 200,000. Details at PW.
Remnick on Obama: The Bridge
The End of the Poe Vigil
It's been nearly three years since an unknown man last marked Edgar Allan Poe's birthday by leaving three roses and cognac at Poe's grave. Today is Poe's birthday and "Poe fans are planning one last vigil this week before calling an end" to the decades-long tradition of watching the mystery mourner pay his respects. (via)
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The Indiana Review is Digitizing
The Indiana Review is adding archived story excerpts and poems to its website. Here’s a Peter Jay Shippy poem they recommend.
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Guerilla Reading
Does literature belong on the streets? Thanks to some forward-thinking initiatives like the Coffee Sleeves Conversation at Coffee House Press and the Chicago-based project "Poem While You Wait," (in which poets stationed around the city produce original, on-demand poems for five dollars a piece) literature is finding its way to the masses.
“The Sam Weller Bump”
"Bigger than the Zuckerberg Bump, bigger even than the Colbert Bump or the Oprah Bump—arguably the most historic bump in English publishing is the Sam Weller Bump." A look at the surprising and overwhelming success of Dicken's first novel, The Pickwick Papers, from The Paris Review.
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Hmmm, how do you write a biography of Obama AND edit The New Yorker at the same time? Can you be much more than a figurehead as editor under such circumstances?