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Cave Canem appoints Sandra Bowie interim executive director; Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s book about gutsy women; a local publisher on how to help El Paso; and other news.
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Cave Canem appoints Sandra Bowie interim executive director; Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s book about gutsy women; a local publisher on how to help El Paso; and other news.
Joy Harjo on poetry to build a better future; Keah Brown on disability as a lens, not a subject; Regina Porter on rediscovering history; and other news.
Moby-Dick—the musical; Jia Tolentino’s writing rhythm; collaborating with Oliver Sacks; and other news.
Justin Phillip Reed on monsters and black poetic grotesqueries; why no one likes Holden Caulfield anymore; Margaret Atwood reads Alice Munro; and other news.
Happy Birthday, Herman Melville; Maylis de Kerangal on the language of the kitchen; the literary nature of the 2019 Central Park Squirrel Census; and other news.
The year’s best-selling novel and an unsolved murder; A. E. Stallings on poetry to outlast the world; Lillian Li on juggling jobs and finding focus; and other news.
Not the Booker Prize longlist; Helen Phillips on taking motherhood seriously; a new focus at the American Booksellers Association; and other news.
The literary longevity of Bruno Schulz; when Nabokov, Pynchon, and Vonnegut wrote book reviews; the mystery of a baby’s first words; and other news.
Macmillan’s plan to limit library access to e-books; Geovani Martins on the voice of Brazil; Megan Rapinoe’s book deal; and other news.
Raquel Salas Rivera on the protests in Puerto Rico; our changing use of the word racist; publisher shelves Boris Johnson’s biography of Shakespeare; and other news.