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November 29, 2012
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Wow! I can’t believe the Fall semester here at Lookout Books has come to an end. We’re a teaching press (as you probably know already). Our staff is almost entirely made up of graduate students doing design, marketing, editing, blogging, social media, and way more. As blog editor, it has been an absolute pleasure to work with our current staff: Joe Worthen, Katie Jones, Ethan Warren, Anna Sutton, and Ana Alvarez. I’d like to thank them for their hard work and take a brief moment to re-cap my favorite blog posts this semester: The Five Best H.P. Lovecraft Book Covers - Joe Worthen  Five of the Very Greatest Writers’ (Moustaches) - Ethan Warren  4 Poets I Would Elect to Be President of the United States and the Subsequent Consequences of Their Presidency - John Mortara  Dispatches from Old Books on Front St. - Anna Sutton  Literary Playlist - Ana Alvarez  Recommended Recommendations - Katie Jones Also, I’d like to give you a little preview of what’s to come from Lookout Books in Spring 2013! Ben Miller’s debut memoir, River Bend Chronicle: The Junkification of a Boyhood Idyll amid the Curious Glory of Urban Iowa will be released March 12, 2013!  Thanks to a generous grant from the NC Arts Council, Ben Miller and John Rybicki will tour North Carolina - any booksellers or writing groups interested in hosting? Contact us!  Our next project will be an best-of anthology of pieces from Ecotone’s first 15 issues Finally, we’ll be at AWP 2013 with bells on - come see us! We’ll be at the bookfair and the following events: A Tribute to Edith Pearlman The Debut Voices of UNCW’s Lookout Books Small Presses Win Big: Publishers Sound Off on Their National Book Award Winners and Finalists Andre Dubus III & Edith Pearlman: A Reading and Conversation Much love and all the best, - John Mortara, Lookout Intern

Wow! I can’t believe the Fall semester here at Lookout Books has come to an end. We’re a teaching press (as you probably know already). Our staff is almost entirely made up of graduate students doing design, marketing, editing, blogging, social media, and way more.

As blog editor, it has been an absolute pleasure to work with our current staff: Joe Worthen, Katie Jones, Ethan Warren, Anna Sutton, and Ana Alvarez. I’d like to thank them for their hard work and take a brief moment to re-cap my favorite blog posts this semester:

Also, I’d like to give you a little preview of what’s to come from Lookout Books in Spring 2013!

Finally, we’ll be at AWP 2013 with bells on - come see us! We’ll be at the bookfair and the following events:



Much love and all the best,

- John Mortara, Lookout Intern

Tags: lit literature books writing AWP Lookout Books Edith Pearlman John Rybicki Steve Almond authors blog uncw

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May 10, 2012
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Hey there, Lookout lookin’ good in UNCW’s Arts and Sciences magazine! - Posted by John Mortara, via Sally Johnson.

Hey there, Lookout lookin’ good in UNCW’s Arts and Sciences magazine!


- Posted by John Mortara, via Sally Johnson.

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April 19, 2012
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This past week was full to the brim with fantastic Lookout events and guests! John Rybicki flew in to Wilmington on Thursday, April 12, and visited Roland-Grise Middle School the next day as a guest teacher for a class of thirty-seven seventh graders. The class loved him and showed some pretty powerful poetry chops themselves! We got some great video of the lesson.

Saturday I was lucky enough to spend time with John in downtown Wilmington during the Azalea Festival. Later that day Edith Pearlman came to Wilmington for the reading on Sunday and to kick of her North Carolina tour!

Sunday evening was the big night. Edith and John both read from their books. Edith read “Mates” from Binocular Vision and John read several poems from his book When All the World Is Old. The room, an audience of over one hundred people, sat silent and awestruck before applauding. After the reading, both John and Edith stayed for a reception with dessert. We sold their books while they signed them and spoke with the guests.

Edith is still on tour in North Carolina. Follow her adventures and interviews on our Facebook page!


Exhausted after a long week and excited for another!

- Sally J. Johnson, Lookout Intern

Tags: john rybicki behiind the scenes edith pearlman books lit reading poetry short fiction when all the world is old binocular vision wilmington uncw