NCF Tuesday: NYC Poetry Festival; Writing Contests; Hilarious Book Titles
News Source NYC Poetry Festival Over 130 poets from all corners of the U.S. will gather on Governors Island this weekend for New York’s first poetry festival , Saturday, July 30 th -Sunday, July 31 st . Check out the official festival website here . What literary festivals have you attended? Source Going Extinct: Copy Editing Virginia Heffernan discusses the affect of technology on the publishing industry. She says publishing houses don’t hire as many copy editors as they did in the past, which leads to typos sneaking into print . Do typos in published work turn you off or do you find them endearing? Source YouTube Time Machine Ever wonder what Leo Tolstoy or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would look or sound like on video? Booklicious Blog posted videos of six famous authors, including Mark Twain and Ian Fleming . What author from the past would you like to hear speak? Contests ...