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SoapboxBoston Is a Literary City Too
An editor at University of Massachusetts Press asks why the successful Boston Book Festival didn’t receive more media coverage.
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Open Book
Open Book: A Hidden Tragedy
The Up Stairs Lounge fire in New Orleans takes its place in the history of civil rights and gay liberation—and in a new book by Robert W. Fieseler.
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Soapbox
A Historian Turns to True Crime
When it comes to writing true crime, historians should be on publishers’ radar, writes Karen L. Cox—they are, after all, consummate researchers.
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Soapbox
A Bookseller Runs for Congress
Anderson's Bookshop co-owner Becky Anderson explains why she is running for Congress in Illinois' 6th District.
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Soapbox
Taking Charge of Your Book's Buzz
A small press author makes marketing her book a part of the publishing process—and the results are encouraging.
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Open Book
Open Book: In This Debut Novel, 'Tangerine' is No Fruit
Morocco holds a lot of space in the imagination of writers, readers, and visitors—and continues to in Christine Mangan’s debut novel, 'Tangerine,' about two young women who reconnect and come to grief in 1956 Tangier.
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Soapbox
For Poets, There's No Such Thing as Bad Press
A professor recalls his relationship with John Ashbery and finding his name in the poet’s obituary.
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Soapbox
Hey, Websites: Think Before You Link to Amazon
A writer and editor asks for consideration of the indies when you click to buy that book online.
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Soapbox
Frankfurt Book Fair Forever
Foreign rights director Dorothy Hall Smyk looks back at the fair she’s attended for 25 years.
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Open Book
Open Book: Shanghaied in Shanghai
Paul French's 'City of Devils' spins a cautionary tale of gambling, dope, and vice in 1930s and ’40s Shanghai.
