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2 February 2012. Being Human: Call of the Wild has been published! Details on the main page of our site.
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26 January 2012. We anticipate publication of Being Human: Call of the Wild very soon. Twelve authors, fifteen short stories.
17 December 2011. Support the Arts: buy from us at a discount (we pay shipping). Go to the Catalogue page and navigate to the PDF Catalogue. (See the last page of the Catalogue for details.) Rather than spending money on used copies from re-sellers, support us: whatever we make funds future projects.
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23 November 2011. ASEBL Journal is now our sister. Go here to read more. If you are interested in blogging about the biology of morality, contact the blog editor, Gregory F. Tague.
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19 November 2011. Update on status of next literary anthology, Being Human: Call of the Wild.
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20 October 2011. 1. Please be patient as we work our way through the submissions to Human/Nature. 2. There is an excellent video of John Guzlowski's amazing reading at St. Francis College - go to Front Page News, War Remembered for the link.
20 October 2011. 1. Please be patient as we work our way through the submissions to Human/Nature. 2. There is an excellent video of John Guzlowski's amazing reading at St. Francis College - go to Front Page News, War Remembered for the link.
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24 September 2011. We are currently reading submissions to Human/Nature. To everyone who submitted, we appreciate your patience. Keep in mind that each submission is read by at least two people (at least once by each of the two readers - sometimes more). It is a process that takes time. And then, of course, after selections have been made, there is the process of assembling and editing the book.
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27 August 2011. We have added a Book Reviews button to our site. If you have a book published within the last year (preferably literary - poetry, novel, memoir, mixed genre, etc. - not a scholarly or academic work) and would like us to consider having it reviewed, please query us (with Book Review in the subject line).
To start, we have *commissioned* Rachel Kaminsky to review two poetry books by Ruth Sabath Rosenthal; Kathryn Buckley to review a novel by Janice Eidus; and Megan Moriarty to review a poetry book by Carlo Matos. (We expect these reviews before the end of October.)
We will not automatically accept unsolicited books, and we will not automatically review everything that comes our way. We believe that some care of selection must go into what appears on our site. We would select reviewers (and the review would be signed).
If we accept a book for review, we will make every effort to see that the review is published in a timely manner and stays on the site for as long as possible (though it will not remain there permanently).
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Mid-July. In case you have not yet noticed, we came up with a title for our 4th (anticipated) anthology: Human / Nature. No subtitle yet. Have you seen our classified ad in The Review Review? We are still looking for short story submissions for Human / Nature. Details at this site under the Calls/Guidelines button.
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See our classified ad (Call for short stories - nature anthology) in Poets & Writers, July/August.
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Recently Rec'd, and excited to report and recommend: A School for Fishermen. Poems by Carlo Matos. Brickhouse Books (2009). Kristina Marie Darling says of Matos' collection: "At turns whimsical and philosophical . . . a wonderful and moving book." And Brandi Homan says that Carlo Matos is "Unafraid to look at the vastness of existence . . ." Robert Antoni calls the book a "fine collection." Certainly worth adding to your library.
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Interview of Editions Bibliotekos (Gregory F. Tague and Fredericka A. Jacks) by The Atrium: a Journal of Academic Voices, Spring 2011. Thank you Nancy Riecken.
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27 April 2011: Kindle e-book edition of BATTLE RUNES: Writings on War now available.
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Recent Books Recently Received (by Bibliotekos contributors), and well worth adding to your bookshelf:
- Facing Home and Beyond. Poems. Ruth Sabath Rosenthal. New York: Paragon Poetry Press (2011). [100pgs. $16]
- Facing Home. Poems. Ruth Sabath Rosenthal. Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press (2010). [33pgs. $14]
- The Last Jewish Virgin: A Novel of Fate. Janice Eidus. Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press (2010). [147pgs. $24.95; also as an e-book]
- Bear in Mind. Poems. Anne Whitehouse. Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press (2010). [35pgs.]
- Blessings and Curses. Poems. Anne Whitehouse. Poetic Matrix Press (2009). [125pgs. $15]
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We are ready to do another anthology, which would be our fourth. The theme is “nature’s world.” (The book has not yet been titled). The full Call and additional Guidelines can be found by clicking on the Guidelines button on the right-hand side of the home-page: if you are interested in submitting, please refer to the Guidelines and Call.
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The most morally and emotionally provocative story – children in war – and hence the lead in the collection – “Go” by Jenny D. Williams – in BATTLE RUNES
Bittersweet effects of service to one’s country – husband and father – neither sweet nor sour – Patty Somlo’s veteran’s story – only in BATTLE RUNES.
Poet of understatement - about ravages of war: Alamgir Hashmi - only in Battle Runes.
Among the many outstanding stories in this collection: The German” by John Guzlowski. A stand out story - you have to read it to believe it.
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27 December 2010
Common Boundary: Stories of Immigration (Bibliotekos 2010) is now available as an ebook. Go to the Google e-bookstore and type in "editions bibliotekos". Best if purchased as scanned pages (and should be available world-wide soon). $9.99US
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Read the Autobiographical Profile of Cassandra Lewis
posted 7 December 2010
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Includes a photographic portrait by Peter Worrall
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We present here A Year-End Newsletter (2010), with informational updates from some contributors and friends. Originally we were going to post a finished newsletter mid-December, but we decided to put it up sooner, and then add to it. So if you have some year-end news, tell us and we'd be happy to add it here. "Pain and Memory," "Common Boundary," and "Battle Runes" refer to the Editions Bibliotekos books.Thom Brucie
Appears in “Battle Runes.” In 2010, Cervena Barva Press published a poetry chapbook titled, “Moments Around The Campfire With A Vietnam Vet.”
Daniel Cartaina
Appears in “Pain and Memory.” In March Daniel had a short play produced by Eastenders Rep in San Francisco called “Special Delivery From Heaven” by The Eastenders Repertory Company as part of their tribute to Italian Nobel Prize playwright Dario Fo. “Special Delivery From Heaven” is a comedy written in the theme of Dario Fo's “We Won't Pay, We Won't Pay” and is about an angel from heaven who delivers a “cross to bear” in life to a child in Brooklyn in the 1970s. The event “Fo/Faux" appeared at the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco from March 5th - 21st.
Jennifer Clark
Appears in “Pain and Memory.” Poetry published in “All Poetry is Prayer” and “Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology,” published by Salmon Press, considered one of the most important publishers in the Irish literary world. Work forthcoming in “Raven Chronicles” and “Astropoetica.” She recently completed a poetry manuscript and hopes to find a home for it in 2011.
Jason Dubow
Wrote Foreword to “Common Boundary.” Started blogging about children, schooling, education, and learning.
Janice Eidus
Appears in “Common Boundary.” Her novel, “The Last Jewish Virgin,” was published by Red Hen Press in November, 2010. Short story, “A Bisel This, A Bisel That,” appeared in “Promised Lands: New Jewish American Fiction on Longing and Belonging,” edited by Derek Rubin, published by The Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture and Life.
Danusha Goska
2010 published “Bieganski,” which won the Oscar Halecki award.
Rivka Keren
Appears in “Pain and Memory” and “Common Boundary.” Profiled on this site (June). Novel, “Hefkerut” (English title: “Outrage”), Agam Publishing House, Hanamal Series, Israel, 2010, 295 pages.
Mitch Levenberg
Appears in “Pain and Memory,” “Common Boundary,” and “Battle Runes.” Was Interviewed on this site October. Started blog Has two stories forthcoming in the “Same Press” and had a story appear in “Assisi Journal.”
Robert McParland
Appears in “Pain and Memory.” Two academic books: “Charles Dickens’s American Audience.” Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books/ Rowman and Littlefield, 2010. “Writing About Joseph Conrad.” New York: Infobase/Chelsea House, 2010 (part of the Bloom's Writing About series).
Tim Nees
Appears in “Pain and Memory” and in “Common Boundary.” “The Way She Moves,” story published in “JAAM 28” (NZ literary journal). Some poems published in “A Fine Line” and “Poetry New Zealand 42” (NZ poetry newsletter and journal). Accepted for a limited entry 2011 course: Master of Arts in Creative Writing, at the International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University of Wellington, (full-time post-graduate course where he hopes to write a draft for a novel). In Addition: Tim has just sold the broadcast rights to two stories to Radio New Zealand, AND, has just had an article published in Architecture NZ 6/2010
Muriel Nelson
Cluster of poems in “Common Boundary.” Busy writing and teaching. Muriel was Profiled on this site (August). “With a Big Simile, He Warped His Arms Around Me,” accepted for publication by “The Beloit Poetry Journal.”
Elizabeth Primamore
Appears in “Pain and Memory.” Coming out in December, anthology/textbook: “Literature and Gender.” Eds. Elizabeth Primamore and Dolores Deluise. Pearson Education Publishers, 2011.
Nahid Rachlin
Appears in “Common Boundary” and “Battle Runes.” “Strangers in the House,” produced by Symphony Space, Selected Shorts, read in May 2010, at Getty Center of the Getty Museum, LA and was broadcast on NPR’s around the country in October 2010. “The Son-In-Law,” “The Saint Ann’s Review,” Fall 2010. “Belonging,” “SN Review,” Fall 2010. website
Ruth Sabath Rosenthal
Appears in “Pain and Memory” and “Common Boundary.” Chapbook, “Facing Home” (Finishing Line Press 2010).
Lisa Sita
Appears in “Battle Runes.” Lisa was selected as a finalist in the Watchung Arts Center's Italian American Arts Festival for her short story “Submarines” (April). Working on a book: memoir/literary non-fiction, father-daughter relationship from a cultural/historical standpoint – immigrant versus second-generation American; based on father’s stories about growing up in his hometown (Calabria) in the 1930's and '40s, juxtaposed with her own in a series of flashback stories.
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