Episode 8 of LFTRR Explains the “First Page Test”
James J. Patterson is the reluctant scholar and on this (the eighth!) episode of Live from the Reading Room, he reads the from his essay of the same name. He also reads from books that have passed his "First Page Test" including "Night Train to Lisbon" by Pascal Mercier, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Muse" by Jessie Burton, "The Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller, and "Confessions" by Jean-Jaques Rousseau.
Reuben Jackson and Rose Solari to Read at the American Poetry Museum
Reuben Jackson and Rose Solari will be reading together at the American Poetry Museum on Dec 14th. But their history of reading together doesn’t start there.
Incoming: Early 2020 will be the first ASP Open Submission Period
This new year, we want your unpublished poetry and novel manuscripts!
A Writer’s Legacy: The Mission Behind the Peabody Reader and The Legacy Series
The small press world can be incredibly difficult for the lifelong writer. To publish your works and to watch them fall into “out of print” status due to the vagaries of an industry is not fair to the author nor their art. That is why ASP is rethinking how to publish writers who’ve established themselves in the independent community.