An Animated Sentence by Roberto Ransom
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Artist Andre da Loba animates a sentence, with music by Tim Leeds, from Roberto Ransom's "Three Figures and a Dog," published in the fourth issue of Electric Literature
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Emma Donoghue's Room
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and recently named a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award, Emma Donoghue's novel Room, published last month by Little, Brown, is getting a lot of attention despite—or perhaps because of—its rather disturbing premise.
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Howard Jacobson Wins the Man Booker Prize
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British author Howard Jacobson, who has been described as the love child of Jane Austen and Philip Roth, won the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Finkler Question.
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An Animated Sentence by Joy Williams
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Artist Alice Cohen animates and scores a sentence from Joy Williams's story "Baba Iaga and the Pelican Child," published in the fourth issue of Electric Literature.
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Brown Foundation Fellows Program
The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston offered residencies of one to three months from July 1 to November 30 to mid-career poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France. Residents were provided with travel expenses, private lodging, work space, and a $50 daily stipend. Using only the online application system, writers submitted two work samples of up to 20 pages each, a curriculum vitae, a project description, a proposal for a community event, and two letters of recommendation with a $20 application fee by February 15.
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June 21, 2025
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June 21, 2025
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June 21, 2025
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Brown Foundation Fellows Program, Dora Maar House, Museum of Fine Arts, P.O. Box 6826, Houston, TX 77265. (713) 639-7345.
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Ménerbes
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An Interview With Tom Wolfe
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In 2008 TIME Magazine interviewed Tom Wolfe on the fortieth anniversary of his 1968 book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. The journalist and novelist was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by the National Book Foundation in 2010.
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Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
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The film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go is now playing in select theaters. Poets & Writers Magazine profiled the author when the book was published by Knopf in 2005.
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Five Questions for Monique Truong
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A brief interview with novelist Monique Truong, who is profiled in the current issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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A Look at the Emerging Writer Fellowships
The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland, just a few miles north of Washington, D.C., home to writing workshops and resources for area writers also offers a number of reading fellowships to poets and prose writers in the early stages of their careers. Fellows receive an honorarium and a slot to read at Story/Stereo, a fusion of live music and literature in performance that was attended by roughly seven hundred listeners in its first year, 2009.
Story/Stereo's fall season opens tonight, featuring California-based poet Allison Benis White, whose poetry collection Self-Portrait With Crayon won the Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize in 2008, and fiction writer Aryn Kyle of New York City, author of a short story collection, Boys and Girls Like You and Me (Scribner, 2010), and a novel, The God of Animals (Scribner, 2007). Benis White and Kyle will be accompanied by musician John Davis at the event, which begins at 8 PM.
Other fellows selected for the fall are poet Jenny Browne (The Second Reason) and memoirist Debra Gwartney (Live Through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters), who will read on October 8, and poet Alison Pelegrin (Big Muddy River of Stars) and fiction writer Doreen Baingana (Tropical Fish: Stories Out of Entebbe), set to perform on November 5.
The fellows are chosen by a panel of the center's board members, community representatives, and workshop leaders. In the first two seasons of the program, the winners were seven men and five women, half of whom had published only one book, and the other half two. Five fellows were writers of color.
Kyle Semmel, the center's publications and communications manager, says the organization is looking to bring in emerging writers from across the country. (Fellows who live more than 250 miles from Bethesda receive an honorarium of five hundred dollars and local writers receive half that amount.) The deadline for writers nationwide to submit work for spring 2011 consideration is September 30.
In the video below, tonight's featured writer Aryn Kyle reads the first part of an essay at the Franklin Park Reading Series in Brooklyn, New York, about her experience on a book tour (and dating another writer at the time). Subsequent scenes from the reading are posted on YouTube.
Six Themes in You Were Wrong
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"Marc" Scharf, a friend of author Matthew Sharpe, discusses the themes in Sharpe's forthcoming novel You Were Wrong, published by Bloomsbury in August.
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