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Agents & Editors: A Q&A With Agent Nat Sobel

by Jofie Ferrari-Adler

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Agent Nat Sobel, one of the most forward-thinking and outspoken agents in the business, voices his opinions on what authors should do for themselves, the dangers of MFA programs, and what he finds in literary magazines.

Way, Way Too Much Information

by Frank Bures

Today, it seems that we have access to an unlimited amount of information all the time, and for those of us who want to be alone with our thoughts, that information is getting harder and harder to avoid. More and more of us suffer from a condition sometimes called "digital information overload," or "infomania."

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Has your writing suffered as a result of infomania?

Mailer Remembered: Postcard From New York City

by R. B. Stuart

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On Wednesday, April 9, five months after his death at age eighty-four from acute renal failure, hoards of literary aficionados, friends, colleagues, and readers of Norman Mailer attended a memorial for the author at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Among the scheduled speakers were authors Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, and William Kennedy, actor Sean Penn, and members of Mailer’s family.

Obama's "Bitter" and the Creative Nonfiction Writer: Postcard From the Campaign Trail

by Kelly Nuxoll

The origin and form of Mayhill Fowler’s Huffington Post report on Barack Obama's use of the word "bitter" suggest her work is neither blogging nor journalism, but creative nonfiction. That its effect was out of proportion with its intention begs the question: What can the creative nonfiction writer expect in the Information Age?

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Current Issue

Our cover story is a profile of Valzhyna Mort, the young Belarusian poet whose American debut is infused with the music of her homeland.

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Follow our cover subject, Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort, on her recent trip to New York City, as she shares her poetry and talks about the language and people that inspire her work.

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Publisher Maribeth Batcha (left) and editor Hannah Tinti celebrate the hundredth issue of One Story—just one of the twenty-four magazines highlighted in our special section on literary journals.
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For Valzhyna Mort, the young Belarusian poet whose American debut is infused with the music of her homeland, the future of poetry is an unflinching look at the past.
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In the third installment of our series of interviews with publishing insiders, agent Nat Sobel voices his opinions on the dangers of MFA programs and what he finds in literary magazines.
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Credit: William Bryant Rozier
In his third novel, the follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize finalist The Bright Forever, Lee Martin portrays how the secrets of our past come to define us.