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World Book Day, Climate Change Reading Group, and More

Apr 23, 2019

Viet Thanh Nguyen on the “voice for the voiceless” label; the fifth annual Independent Bookstore...
Beach Reads, a Book Critic’s Take on the Mueller Report, and More

Apr 22, 2019

Poets recommend poets; Kathy Fagan talks to Maggie Smith about playing the long game; Robert Caro...

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Dear Titanic

Poetry

In the Paris Review’s advice column Poetry Rx, Sarah...
Tiny Observations

Creative Nonfiction

“In the tiny little notebook I took tiny little notes…. I wrote for one minute eight times...
Something in My Eye

Fiction

Earlier this month, a woman in Taiwan who was clearing weeds from a gravestone as part of the...

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Literary Events Calendar

May 18, 2019
Gaithersburg Book Festival
Gaithersburg City Hall10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Readings & Workshops

Alla Abdulla-Matta presents her work at the Ninth Annual Connecting Cultures Reading. The event took place at the Center for Book Arts in New York, New York on May 15, 2018. (Credit: Margarita Corporan)

Poet Juan Delgado at the Cholla Needles Monthly Reading. The event took place at Space Cowboy Books in Joshua Tree, California on October 7, 2018. (Credit: Bob DeLoyd)

Marty Carrera at the Seventeenth Annual Intergenerational Reading. The event took place at Barnes & Noble Union Square in New York, New York on June 23, 2018. (Credit: Margarita Corporan)

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Hay Festival Cartagena 2018 - Interview with Erling Kagge

“I think we’re all born explorers. When I look at my kids, they want to climb before they can walk,” says Erling Kagge in this interview with Santiago Rivas Camargo from the 2018 Hay Festival in Cartagena, Colombia. Kagge’s new book, Walking... more

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OutWrite: The Sanctuary of Representation

Posted by RW Blogger on 4.22.19

dave ring writes about the upcoming OutWrite LGBTQ literary festival and annual speculative reading series held in Washington, D.C. more

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