Q&A: Sokolowski’s Inspiring Word Work
Merriam-Webster’s editor-at-large, Peter Sokolowski, discusses how the popular dictionary is driven by both definitions and data, and reveals the 2017 Word of the Year: feminism.
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Pratt Institute
MFA Program
Not Genre-Specific
Brooklyn, NY
Application Deadline:
Rolling Admissions
Application Fee:
$50 ($90 for international students)
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The program supports a pamphlet publication series. Interested students have the opportunity to curate and edit a pamphlet with the support of fellow student collaborators and a faculty coordinator.
Books Through Bars
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“If you believe in literature...then you believe that some of these books have the power to transform people and the way they see the world.” Danny Schaffer, a member of the Books Through Bars volunteer collective, which matches and sends requested books to incarcerated people, talks about the importance of access to knowledge, history, and literature in the prison system.
Penguin Hotline, Good and Bad Readers, and More
December’s must-read poetry books; the tricks of menu design; LARB Books acquires Les Figues Press; and other news.
Whiting Foundation Announces New Prizes for Literary Magazines
Three Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes totaling up to $120,000 will be given annually for print and digital publications. The new awards program is intended to support both “nimble upstarts as well as established journals.”
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New Nigerian Novelists, the Fate of Book Startups, and More
Bad Sex in Fiction Award shortlist announced; the enduring challenge of Hart Crane’s poem “The Bridge”; jewelry made from books; and other news.
Scrabble Stories
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Planning to play some board games or learn some new words over the holiday weekend? Get some insight from this New Yorker video as professional Scrabble players discuss and reenact their most improbable, most regretful, and most humbling plays and moves.
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The Keats Letters Project, Writers Nominated for Image Awards, and More
Dictionaries for prisoners; Thanksgiving poems; Liz Phair signs two-book deal with Random House; and other news.
National Book Award Winners, Art for Justice Grants, and More
Marilynne Robinson on democracy and discourse; Chinua Achebe’s Google Doodle; the seven sins of book blurbing; and other news.
Saeed Jones on BuzzFeed’s Twitter Show, Audible Turns Twenty, and More
Actress Krysten Ritter releases thriller novel; McSweeney’s and Casper Mattress launch print magazine; Beth Ann Fennelly on micro-memoirs; and other news.
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