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The Mueller Report as Graphic Novel, Emma Cline on Creative Characters, and More
How Jenna Bush Hager become the new book club queen; sharing a writing life with Toni Morrison; social media scrutiny in the young adult publishing world; and other news.
Joy Harjo’s Journey, Author Accuses Trump of Sexual Assault, and More
Lisa Taddeo on researching female desire; Octavia Butler’s birthday; the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award longlist; and other news.
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Remembering Kevin Killian; PEN America condemns death of Uighur author; how to become a full-time poet; and other news.
Joy Harjo Named U.S. Poet Laureate, Elizabeth Acevedo Wins Carnegie, and More
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Language Spats, Melissa Febos on the Female Memoir, and More
Sarah Manguso on writing about menopause; when Gloria Vanderbilt reviewed children’s books; Nicholas Sparks’s e-mails leaked; and other news.
A Secret Literary Fellowship, Dorothea Lasky on Dancers and Demons, and More
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LSD Literature, Salman Rushdie on Kurt Vonnegut, and More
National student poets announced; the poetry and politics of El Salvador’s José Roberto Cea; Joanne Ramos on controlling the female body; and other news.
Arundhati Roy’s Anger, Emily Ruskovich Wins International Dublin Literary Award, and More
Maria Kuznetsova on creating a female misfit; day one of the Poetry to the People road trip; balancing fact and invention in fiction writing; and other news.
When Agatha Christie Disappeared, the Ups and Downs of Writing, and More
New publication ZORA celebrates women of color; the modernization of publishing offices; a new bidder for Barnes & Noble; and other news.
Min Jin Lee on Learning to Write, the Rebellion of Amelia Bedelia, and More
Reimagining the publishing world as a fantasy baseball league; the 2019 ASLE awards for environmental writing; widening the Booker Prize competition; and other news.
Elizabeth Gilbert on Female Desire, James Daunt to Lead Barnes & Noble, and More
Copyright dispute over Penguin Classics edition of John Okada’s No-No Boy; Kristen Arnett on not writing a coming out story; five commentators on whether Shakespeare was a woman; and other news.
A Fond Farewell to Tin House, Tayari Jones Wins Women’s Fiction Prize, and More
Griffin Poetry Prize winners announced; private equity firm to purchase Barnes & Noble; writers and editors bid farewell to Tin House; and other news.
Firecracker Award Winners, Ocean Vuong on the Scale of Novels, and More
Asian American Writers’ Workshop announces interim executive director; backlash against prosecutor-turned-novelist Linda Fairstein; Haruki Murakami on rearranging the literary vocabulary; and other news.
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “Immortal Moment,” Writing the Novels of Star Wars, and More
Ridiculously long subtitles; an imperiled publishing industry in Hong Kong; Sue Berger Ramin joins Brandeis University Press as inaugural director; and other news.
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Tommy Orange’s literary influences; therapy as a writing class; Esmé Weijun Wang on taking praise seriously; and other news.
BookExpo Highlights, Elif Shafak on Author Suppression, and More
Lemn Sissay wins PEN Pinter Prize; Pitchaya Sudbanthad’s climate change reading list; Birute Putrius on book smuggling and Lithuanian independence; and other news.
Walt Whitman Turns Two Hundred, Firecracker Award Finalists, and More
Julie Orringer on the intimacy of historical fiction; Kelly Link’s tips for debut authors; literary inspiration from the most decadent college of the eighties; and other news.
Best Translated Book Awards, Healing Through Poetry in Houston, and More
Leslie Carol Robert’s case for a non-expert appreciation of nature; BookExpo kicks off with an emphasis on storytelling; remembering poet Linda Gregg; and other news.
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Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s meditation on binaries; Tony Horwitz has died; Michael Wolff claims Mueller drafted an obstruction indictment against Trump; and other news.
Robert L. Bernstein Has Died, Diversity Gap in Children’s Nature Books, and More
The declining use of books in college libraries; summer reading from the Washington Post; learning your upcoming book is wrong on-air; and other news.
Tommy Pico on Not Wasting Time, Siri Hustvedt Wins Princess of Asturias Prize, and More
Children’s book author Judith Kerr has died; this summer’s most anticipated releases; the crafted persona of “the female Byron”; and other news.
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Jokha Alharthi Wins Man Booker International Prize, Franny Choi on Cyborg Poetics, and More
Ben Lerner on depicting adolescence; U.K. writers urge voters to support the European Union in Thursday elections; author Binyavanga Wainaina has died; and other news.