Douglas Coupland

"I think that the way my brain is wired, words and objects are almost exactly equal. I sensorily detect little difference between the two."

-Douglas Coupland

Our Douglas Coupland page provides visitors with Coupland's bio, over 40 of his works, exclusive articles, and up-to-date Coupland exhibition listings. The page also includes related artists and categories, allowing viewers to discover art beyond our Coupland page. 

LibraryReads

Who is the intended audience for LibraryReads?

The core audience is everyone who uses a public library, whether in person or online, whether they borrow books, attend programming, rely on library staff for reading recommendations, subscribe to newsletters, browse the shelves and stacks for reading ideas, or participate in any type of library activity.

The monthly LibraryReads list has potential that extends beyond the library community, and we are eager to hear ideas about how to effectively reach the larger reading community, via booksellers, book bloggers, book media, and beyond.

New Vessel Press

New Vessel Press, founded in New York City in 2012, is an independent publishing house specializing in the translation of foreign literature into English. Our books are available in quality paperback and ebook formats.

By bringing readers foreign literature and literary non-fiction, we offer captivating, thought-provoking works with beautifully-designed covers and high production values. We scour the globe looking for the best stories, knowing that only about three percent of the books published in the United States each year are translations. That leaves a lot of great literature still to be discovered.

At New Vessel Press, we believe that knowledge of foreign cultures and literatures enriches our lives by offering passageways to understand and embrace the world. We also regard literary translation as both craft and art, enabling us to traverse borders and open minds. We are committed to books that offer erudition and enjoyment, that stimulate and scintillate, that transform and transport.

And of course, what matters most is not where the authors hail from, or what language they write in. The most important thing is the quality of the work itself. And hence our name. We publish great books, just in a new vessel.

Our books have received a growing array of accolades in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, Words without Borders, Publishers Weekly and O, The Oprah Magazine. We look forward to bringing the world’s great literature to ever more readers.

The Literary Cafe

Welcome to The Literary Cafe, a website for those who find that books are often the starting point for a conversation. The Literary Cafe was started by two friends, Janine Pollack and Lori Theisen. They met while pursuing their master's degrees at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.  Ardent book fans and members of book clubs, they wanted to share the contents of their book shelves, the discussions brewing around them, and mostly how to gather and foster great discussion through knowledge, good food and drink, and experiences. 

"Blood Bonds" by Levi Montgomery

Visit me on Blog Train

Blog-Train.net was started by 3 Bloggers from Germany. Peter, Andreas and René. After the huge success with the german Blog-Train (http://blog-zug.com - more than 10.000 active blogs and very happy bog-owners) we decided to open the gates for english blogs and translated the german blog-train page to english.

click on my link: http://blog-train.net/?l=2696397448813710864

The Daily Beast

The Newsweek/Daily Beast Company LLC formed in February 2011 when the revered print brand and the thriving young news site completed their merger, bringing together the warp speed 24/7 website with the depth, analysis, and investigative power of a great print magazine. The combined operation now attracts over 10 million unique online visitors a month and the magazine reaches 14 million readers across America, and millions more through its international editions.

The Daily Beast was founded in 2008 as the vision of Tina Brown and IAC Chairman Barry Diller. Curated to avoid information overload, the site is dedicated to breaking news and sharp commentary. After the merger, The Daily Beast became the online home of Newsweek Magazine, which has served as the world’s preeminent conversation starter since its founding in 1933. Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Talk, serves as Editor-in-Chief of both publications.


*I love their book section. 

Read It First!

What could be better than learning about great new reads?
Getting free copies of great new reads!

Boston Review Books

Boston Review Books are accessible, short books that take ideas seriously. They are animated by hope, committed to equality, and elude political categories. The editors aim to establish a public space in which people can loosen the hold of conventional preconceptions and start to reason together across the lines others are so busily drawing. The series is published by MIT Press.

NYC Books Through Bars

Started in 1996, NYC Books Through Bars sends thousands of books to prisoners across the nation each year.  Cleaning out your shelves? Looking to donate your unwanted books to a local organization that sends books to prisoners? Look no further! New York City Books Through Bars does just that!

 

Where reading, writing and free speech come together.

Free Word brings together literature, literacy and free expression. Home to nine resident organisations and over 25 associates, it is a dynamic and international production house for literary culture, politics and ideas.

Life of Addiction by Jason Anderson

Check out some great new poetry from WritingRaw.com

When friends have all abandoned the soul

and loved ones have decided to disown the heart

the outcast looks for refuge from his/her society

by escaping to a local bar searching for comfort.

Finding it in the potent taste of an intoxicating elixir

they delve their taste buds first into glasses of whiskey

preparing themselves for the numbness of their senses

that soon will follow the consumption of more alcohol.

Next, they move onto an even more dynamic liquid

exploring the dangerous combination of liquor and pills

while their thought of mind slowly spirals out of control

succumbing to the temptation of corruption by hopelessness.

Overwhelmed with insurmountable pain and heartache

these innocent victims become intertwined with this life of addiction.

© 2011, Jason Anderson

TIFERET Journal

TIFERET’s mission is to promote peace in you as an individual and in our world. Our poetry and prose are dedicated to bringing you closer to spirit and higher consciousness through the written word. Tiferet is a Hebrew word meaning reconciliation of opposites, the heart, compassion, truth. On the Tree of Life, it is where the material and spiritual worlds meet. TIFERET the magazine is a multi-faith publication, presenting a variety of religious traditions as different paths up the same mountain.

Thoughtcast, a podcast featuring conversations with authors and intellectuals

Jenny Attiyeh, host of Thoughtcast, had a recent conversation with Tom Perrotta about the influence of Flannery O'Connor on his work: www.thoughtcast.org

Perrotta discusses, among other topics, O'Connor's misanthropy, and how she reconciles it with her Christianity.

NEW Material Every Monday – to start your week off right.

April 25 issue of WritingRaw.com is now online

The Evolution Continues with WritingRaw.com becoming a Weekly!

Welcome to the World of Literature!

Gnooks is a self-adapting community system based on the gnod engine. Discover new writers you will like, travel the map. of literature and discuss your favorite books and authors.

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What is a vook?

A vook is a new innovation in reading that blends a well-written book, high-quality video and the power of the Internet into a single, complete story. You can read your book, watch videos that enhance the story and connect with authors and your friends through social media all on one screen, without switching between platforms.

Vooks are available in two formats: As a web-based application you can read on your computer and an application for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad for reading on the go. With the web-based application you don't have to download programs or install software. Just open your favorite browser and start reading and watching in an exciting new way. You can also download and install the mobile applications through the Apple iTunes store and sync them with your Apple mobile device.

Cerise Press, an international online journal based in the United States and France, builds cross-cultural bridges by featuring artists and writers in English and translations, with an emphasis on French and Francophone works. Co-founded by Sally Molini, Karen Rigby, and Fiona Sze-Lorrain in 2009, Cerise Press hopes to serve as a gathering force where imagination, insight, and conversation express the evolving and shifting forms of human experience.

The New York Review of Books

This site has gotten a nifty redesign, one more reason to visit the electronic complement to the magazine, home to great writers and writing since 1963.

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York

The book covers a wide swath from Wharton, Melville, Whitman and the rest of the usual suspects, to topics such as African-American literary movements, staging gay and lesbian New York, and a look at the East Village's poetry and punk traditions. The editors and contributors make this an illuminating, essential read.