When Adrienne Raphel got to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she found a group of writers as addicted to fonts as she was. Over time, a “font subculture” developed among the poets, who settled on particular fonts as their signatures, at least for a while. At The Paris Review Daily, she writes about her typographic bent. Pair with our own Garth Risk Hallberg on the use of fonts in publishing.
Comic Fans
Best New Blogs
A fresh take on the year-end list: Bygone Bureau’s Best New Blogs of 2010.
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E-Books Upend Publishing Class
A Columbia University course that has taught generations of bright-eyed would-be Maxwell Perkins the ins and outs of the New York publishing biz has had to retool its curriculum to account for the e-book phenomenon, the New York Times reports.
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Influential Books
The Library of Congress has published an updated list of the most influential books in America after hearing responses from the public.
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Forrest Gander’s Reading List
Recent Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest Gander offers a curated poetry reading list that includes C.D. Wright and Arthur Sze.
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Adapted for Screen
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Back Home
Sometimes, a writer needs to live in the setting of his or her fiction, as was the case with William Faulkner, who famously took a train from Hollywood to Mississippi solely to break through his writer’s block. Other times, they need to move away to find the inspiration to write about their home. In The Globe and Mail, Marsha Lederman writes about Emma Hooper, who credits her move to England with helping her write a novel set in her native Saskatchewan.
Race, Decolonial Love, and Junot Díaz
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