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Lit news roundup: Maya Angelou Twitter scandal, James Franco publishes, Stacey's hosts final event
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Maya Angelou. Credit: Astrid Stawiarz / Getty Images.
It's been quite an interesting news week in the literary and publishing world. Here's the lit news round up for the week of March 1 - 6 2009:
James Franco is publishing a short story collection under Scribner.
Random House, the world's largest publisher, acquires Berkeley's independent Ten Speed Press. I muse on the reasons why.
Maya Angelou reveals she does not tweet. Then who's behind the @mayaangelo Twitter account with 2,495 followers? A 20-year-old artist named Lee.
In other Twitter news, SF-ers Dom Sagolla and Adam Jackson of 140 Characters are writing a style guide for Twitter. It will be released as an iPhone app and a book.
Stacey's Bookstore on Market St hosts its final author reading before its close.
San Francisco's own Laura Albert, the writer behind the JT Leroy hoax, has published a short story under her own name. Her lawyer Donald David (if he is who he says he is) chastises me in the comments.
Critics love or hate Jonathan Littell's fictional Holocaust memoir The Kindly Ones.
Barnes & Noble announces the winners of their Discover Great New Writers Awards.
The NY Times introduces best sellers lists for comic works.
The University of Virgina holds an exhibition for the anniversary of Edgar Allen Poe's birthday. Among the artifacts on display? A 1842 letter in which Poe apologizes to his publisher for drinking too much.
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