Better than TV, More Exciting Than Baseball—The Shaker Museum Reading Series
A writer devotes energy, emotion, and "days of unpaid labor" to start a successful reading series in upstate New York.
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The Nobel Lecture: Art Is Generous and Sympathetic
The acceptance speech of the recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature.
How I Won the Nobel Prize (for Naguib Mahfouz)
How one writer helped a fellow author to get his works translated—and ultimately to win the Nobel Prize.
How to Start a Reading Series
This article, along with the profile of the Shaker Museum readings, begins a series on organizing and giving readings.
Philadelphia: Literary Mecca?
Grassroots reading series and workshops have sprung up, providing a working outlet for emerging poets and fiction writers.
A Writer in a World of Spirits
Living in an African village was like living in an anti-artists' colony, until the author discovered the secret of spirits.
Writing With Light: A Profile of Kelly Wise
Kelly Wise photographs writers, from Amiri Baraka to Mary McCarthy, when he's been struck by their words and ideas.
Honoring Jack Kerouac
On the road in Lowell, Massachusetts, to pay tribute to the "King of the Beats."
Should You Allow Your Manuscript to Be Archived?
By capturing the papers of authors, libraries try to capture the feeling of an era.
Poetry for People in Missoula, Montana
Poetry touches a communal nerve in a place of mountains, rivers, and plains.
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