Arts Funding in Peril
Literary and arts organizations are left reeling after budget cuts at the NEA, NEH, and IMLS.
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How to Think About the Value of a Creative Writing Degree
A writing degree’s worth lies in early readers met, sacred hours at the desk, life-changing books, and deep community.
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The Written Image: A Radical Alteration, Women’s Studio Workshop
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts features artists books with innovative designs that honor familial pasts and document history.
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Looking for Love in a Time of Global Loneliness: A Profile of Kiran Desai
In her third novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, which comes out nearly twenty years after her Booker Prize–winning The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai considers loneliness in all its states of loss and heartache, possibility and promise, through the lens of a love story.
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The Time Is Now: Writing Prompts and Exercises
Write a sparrow poem, a story about the loss of self during a period of social upheaval, or a series of vignettes that look back on several past jobs you’ve had.
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Small Press Points: Finishing Line Press
Based in Georgetown, Kentucky, Finishing Line Press publishes around three hundred titles each year and runs a chapbook competition celebrating writers who are marginalized from mainstream publishing.
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AI Reads (and Translates) Audiobooks
Audible has announced that machines will begin narrating its audiobooks and translating them into select languages.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Pick a Color by Souvankham Thammavongsa and Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice by Rachel Kolb.
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Beyond Our Borders: Understanding Foreign Rights in Publishing
An agent with twenty years of experience selling foreign rights on both sides of the Atlantic unpacks what can appear to be a complicated and unfamiliar aspect of book publishing.
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