Poetry is best appreciated when read aloud, especially so when read by the poets themselves. Present-day technology has brought forth a ...

A decade or so ago, even unknown authors often found themselves on publisher-funded promotional tours.  Bookstores worked overtime to keep...

Flickr photo by jessamyn "I’m tremendously optimistic about the future of the book as an object. I think the worst years of the bo...

Canadian novelist, poet, and essayist Margaret Atwood stands a good chance of someday joining the canon of the English literature greats. Th...