Q&A: Cisneros Celebrates Macondo
The author of The House on Mango Street on the origins and impact of the Macondo Writers Workshop, which has brought together writers who are activists for twenty-five years.
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The Anthologist: A Compendium of Uncommon Collections
A round-up of three new anthologies, including River Teeth: Twenty Years of Creative Nonfiction and Poems From the Edge of Extinction: An Anthology of Poetry in Endangered Languages.
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The Written Image: Ice Receding/Books Reseeding
Artist Basia Irland carves book sculptures out of ice and embeds them with seeds that populate riverbanks when the sculptures melt.
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Inside Publishing: The Book Publicist
In the second installment in a yearlong series on publishing professionals, four publicists describe the challenges of their job in the digital age.
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Reviewers & Critics: Bethanne Patrick
The critic discusses her reading process, the perfect pan, and the popular Twitter hashtag she created, #FridayReads.
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At Home With Elizabeth Bishop
The Key West Literary Seminar has acquired the former Florida residence of poet Elizabeth Bishop and will turn the house into a public haven for poetry and prose.
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An Alaska Retreat for Women Writers
Mystery writer Dana Stabenow supports female-identifying and nonbinary writers with a new residency in Homer, Alaska, inspired by the retreat that changed her life.
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594 Ways of Reading Jane Eyre
A research project called Prismatic Jane Eyre compares the many translations of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, studying the ways each reflects the culture in which it was created.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit and Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong.
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Small Press Points: The Cupboard Pamphlet
The small press annually publishes four chapbooks of “formally strange or conceptually bizarre” prose.
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