Pokémon Go Inspires Book Game, Weird Guinness Book Records, and More
President Obama’s lucrative book deals; National Read a Book Day; Belle Boggs on her new memoir; and other news.
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Nuyorican Poets Café Expands, Nader’s Bookstore, and More
New study shows Americans prefer print books to e-books; Italian teens receive €500 cultural vouchers; Jonathan Safran Foer on his new novel; and other news.
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Ancient Library Rivalries, Book on the Rail, and More
Google returns Dennis Cooper’s blog; Ian McEwan on writing his seventeenth novel; the “Nu-Audacity” school of poetry; and other news.
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The Accidental Novelist, Truman Capote’s Ashes for Sale, and More
Award-winning novelist Marlon James featured on Vanity Fair’s “Daring 25” list; Deep Vellum publisher Will Evans on publishing works in translation; Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life optioned as series; and other news.
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A Great Good: An Interview With Jacqueline Woodson
Upon the release of Another Brooklyn, her first novel for adults in twenty years, award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson discusses New York City’s literary legacy, the strength in being a person of color, putting humanity on the page, living in the age of Beyoncé, and happiness
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Fashion in Fiction, Kafka’s Comedy, and More
Barnes & Noble fires CEO; Reese Witherspoon options film rights to Liane Moriarty novel; a 1972 novel’s anticipation of Brexit; and other news.
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Poetry and the Olympics, National Book Lovers Day, and More
Literary female friendship; Harry Potter exhibit to open next year at the British Library; working at Faber & Faber with T. S. Eliot; and other news.
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Saving James Baldwin’s Home, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston’s Road Trip, and More
Twentieth anniversary of Junot Díaz’s Drown; Turkish government shuts down twenty-nine publishers following coup attempt; Anne Frank in contemporary fiction; and other news.
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Federico García Lorca Revisited, Regional Literature of the United States, and More
Learning to love a non-native language; fiction writer Brian Evenson on narrative uncertainty; the U.S. Constitution becomes best-seller following Khizr Khan’s DNC speech; and other news.
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Teju Cole on Black Lives Matter Photos, Fifty Reasons to Read Joy Williams, and More
The 2016 Man Booker Prize long list has been announced; a man named Hemingway wins Hemingway lookalike contest; a consideration of workplace fiction by women; and other news.
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