Come one, come all to Global Correspondence: A Benefit Reading for PEN America
When: February 24 @ 7 pm
Where: Cooper Union’s Great Hall (7 East 7th St, NYC)
Who: André Aciman, Edward Albee, Anthony Appiah, Lydia Davis, Deborah Eisenberg,
Nathan Englander, Janet Malcolm, Francine Prose, Sarah Ruhl, and more
Tickets are $15/$12 for students and PEN members. $50 tickets [...]

or every book you received this year as a holiday gift, consider donating $1 to the Book Wish Foundation, a nonprofit providing “reading relief” for Darfur refugees in Chad.

Hey, fiction writers! What are you doing on Saturday, November 15th?
If you spend the day writing, you can help raise money for Dzanc, a unique non-profit independent press established (in their own words) “to not only publish great books, but to work nationally in set communities to provide writing workshops and year round programs [...]

I still haven’t read one of her mysteries, but in 2005, Ayelet Waldman had me at hello with her infamous Modern Love essay — the one where she admits – blissfully – to loving her husband even more than her children. (Bonus: said husband is Michael Chabon.)
Now Waldman is channeling some of that passion [...]

Last Tuesday night I joined over 300 neighbors and book lovers in the lobby of BAM-Harvey to rally support for an independent bookstore in Fort Greene. The event was sponsored by FGIBI, or the Fort Greene Independent Bookstore Initiative (FGIBI), and its guest of honor was Jessica Stockton Bagnulo, winner of the 2007 Brooklyn [...]