Let's Talk Diversity: An All-Women Panel Talks Change at BookExpo 2018
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In one of BookExpo 2018’s final events, five women gathered for a dialogue on diversity and inclusivity - or lack thereof - in the publishing industry.
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The State of Free Speech in America, at BookExpo 2018
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What is free speech in America today and does it need saving. Three prominent Americans, including former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson and Pulitzer prize winner Jose Antonio Vargas.
Read MoreMeet the Crowd: BookExpo America, 2018 — Day Two
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In this series, we meet the people who make up BookExpo 2018.
Read MoreMeet the Crowd: BookExpo America, 2018 – Day One
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Meet the book lovers who attend BookExpo America – the largest annual book trade fair in the U.S.
Read MoreBarnes & Noble Chairman and Founder Len Riggio Gives Inaugural Opening Keynote at BookExpo America
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Barnes & Noble chairman and founder Len Riggio delivered the first-ever opening keynote address for BookExpo America to open the 2018 event. And in it, he fought for books and the need for bricks-and-mortar stores that sell them.
Read MoreTop Picks: 10 Unmissable Voices at BookExpo America 2018
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BookExpo America is the largest annual book trade fair in the country, with an enormous program. We’re here to help.
Read MoreJane in the City
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On Monday night in Manhattan, singer-songwriter, actress and model, Jane Birkin, appeared in front of a packed audience at the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF). Birkin was in the city ahead of a one-night-only performance at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, in New York.
Read MoreEssay: A personal and universal journey towards poetry
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Argentinian poet, writer and journalist Mariano Rolando Andrade writes of his personal return to poetry just as this art goes through its own revival on the occasion of the XII International Festival of Poetry of Buenos Aires, which ended on June 18th.
Read MoreMeeting Michel Houellebecq: Ceci N'est Pas Une Interview
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LSP met French literary star Michel Houellebecq in New York City at the opening in June of his first US art show "Michel Houellebecq: French Bashing," a miniature adaptation of his Paris 2016 exhibit "Rester Vivant" (To Stay Alive). The atypical novelist wasn't feeling well but he took the time to guide LSP's host through his pictures and art. Here's an excerpt from our elliptical Q&A.
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Amazon Books: Making the Digital Physical
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On May 25, 2017, the doors officially opened at the new Amazon Books store in Columbus Circle in New York. Another store on 34th Street is expected to open this summer. In November 2015, Amazon — the world’s largest online retailer — opened its first brick-and-mortar bookstore in Seattle. It was an unexpected twist for company that had built its empire by selling books (and now everything else) online. LSP visited the latest Amazon Books venue, located in the city that's ostensibly the heart of America's publishing industry, just days after it opened its doors.
Read MoreBookExpo 2017 in Ten Essential Points
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This week, from May 31 to June 2, the Literary Show Project will be attending BookExpo America — the largest annual book trade fair in the country, and a place for those in the publishing world to gather in celebration of literature and those who create it. This year’s expo will be held at the Javits Center in New York City, attracting authors, publishers and bibliophiles alike.
Read MoreTribeca Film Festival 2017: A Conversation with Screenwriter and Filmmaker Rama Burshtein
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LSP talks to award-winning Israeli director Rama Burshtein after a screening of her movie The Wedding Plan at the Tribeca Film Festival. In 2012, Burshtein's debut Fill the Void, about a religious young woman who faces the decision to marry her late sister’s husband, gained worldwide recognition and established her reputation as both a filmmaker and screenwriter.
Read MoreThe Mythology of Book Covers
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Meandering through the Strand Bookstore’s famous 18 miles of books can feel very much like entering Jorge Luis Borges’s infinite Library of Babel. Overflowing carts of $1 used books lure readers to one of New York’s most loved independent bookstores. Incapable of reading everything, all readers must face a choice. Often, the answer boils down to which cover catches your eye first.
Read MoreOpEd: Womanhood, Literature and the Reservoir of Strength
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In my native tradition, the Yoruba tradition, we look to our elders with reverence the folds in their skin house pockets of wisdom, serving as a reminder that there is no path we must walk alone.
Read MoreThe Poet's Declaration, A Modern Manifesto
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When political discourse is a fight between two competing and opposed sets of facts, perhaps the only way forward is through narrative.
Read MoreObama's Farewell Speech: Atticus Finch and the Power of We
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In his farewell address--the latest installment in a presidential tradition dating back to George Washington--Barack Obama closed out a historic political chapter begun with another acclaimed speech, the one he gave at the Democratic National Convention in 2004.
Read MoreA Year in Reading: 2017
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Was 2016 the "worst year ever," the most disheartening, chaotic, awful 366 days of all time? Some alarmists would have you believe that, but 2016 won't retain this dubious honor for long, because every year the world continues to be a chaotic and frightening place. And yet 2016 was an incredible year for literature and culture, with 2017 looking just as promising. In troubling times, we need artists and thinkers more than ever, and we cannot live on long-form articles alone.
In that spirit, we give you our 2017 reading list, one book to fit the mood of each month.
Read MoreA Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates
/In an interview with Coates at Festival Albertine this past week, the author and essayist took a break from the frenzy of an event that drew crowds of New Yorkers to the salons of the Fifth Ave bookstore for a moment of introspection. He shared his thoughts on the end of the Obama era, his mentor David Carr, and about writing when nobody's reading.
Read MoreTop Ten: Nasty Women in Literature
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Inspired by Trump's "nasty woman" comment during last week's Presidential debate, here are ten of the nastiest women in literature.
Read MoreA memoirist, and a freedom fighter, visits New York
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In his lifetime, Saadi Yacef has been many things: a freedom fighter; a prisoner; a memoirist; a senator; and a film producer. As the military leader of the National Liberation Front in Algiers, Yacef was a key actor in one of the bloodiest decolonization wars of the 20th century and his memoir was adapted into the iconic 1966 film The Battle of Algiers. LSP recently interviewed Yacef at the Film Forum in New York.
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