Márquez’s Hometown Truths, Naming Minor Characters, and More
How reading fiction teaches empathy; a case for reading Proust on a cell phone; the need for more people of color in editorial positions; and other news.
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From the Magazine
Astronomy Software Dates Sappho Poem, Lena Dunham Releases Surprise Book, and More
Bookslut founder Jessa Crispin on the decline of online book culture; J. K. Rowling on freedom of expression; Han Kang wins Man Booker International Prize for fiction; and other news.
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Algorithm Selects Book to Publish, Bookslut’s Final Issue, and More
Shelfie app partners with U.S. bookstore; Ruth Ozeki on embodied writing; on avoiding childbirth scenes in fiction; and other news.
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Whiting Award Winners Announced, the Dime Novel’s Return, and More
On the craft choices of debut novelists; BuzzFeed launches section for new writing; missing Hong Kong editor returns; and other news.
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Tracking Submission Managers
With submission managers like Submittable transforming the ways in which writers submit their work to publications, new online offerings like Literistic are streamlining the process even further. But could the shift to digital-only submissions have a negative impact on the culture of publishing?
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Q&A: Lisa Lucas Looks to Guernica’s Future
The New York City–based art and politics magazine rings in its second decade with its first paid staff position and the launch of a print anthology.
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Lisa Lucas Named Guernica Publisher, Warner Bros. Seeks Lawsuit Dismissal, and More
Booksellers launch drive for immigrant children; Middle Eastern entrepreneur hawks banned books; student discovers lost photograph of Alfred Lord Tennyson; and other news.
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A New Home for Defunct Journals
Mike Joyce, editor in chief of the online journal Literary Orphans, launches the Rookery, a permanent home for recently shuttered literary magazines whose content would otherwise be lost.
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The Written Image: The Word Dress
British bridal-gown designer Jennifer Pritchard Couchman created a dress made entirely out of book pages, which premiered at a literary festival in Lancaster, England, this past October.
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Literary MagNet
Literary MagNet chronicles the start-ups and closures, successes and failures, anniversaries and accolades, changes of editorship and special issues—in short, the news and trends—of literary magazines in America. This issue’s MagNet features Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Conjunctions, Phantom Drift: A Journal of New Fabulism, Fairy Tale Review, and Unstuck.
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