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Former New Jersey poet laureate Amiri Baraka died yesterday at age seventy-nine; sales of Barnes & Noble’s Nook fell 60.5 percent over the nine-week holiday season; Graywolf editor Jeff Shotts discusses the art of rejection; and other news.
Barnes & Noble has named Michael P. Huseby as its new CEO; Jason Diamond rounds up thirty-five masterful examples of short stories, including Lynne Tillman’s Someday This Will Be Funny; Cormac McCarthy’s ex-wife was recently arrested in New Mexico; and other news.
The Huffington Post examines seven famous writers who wrote while lying down; author and poet Jim Harrison explains the importance of patience; BuzzFeed reveals the literary world of New York City during the 1920s; and other news.
Biographer Walter Isaacson asks the digital community for help in editing his next book; writer George Saunders discusses his techniques for crafting short stories; Wendy Lesser on the role of literature in contemporary society; and other news.
The Millions previews the most anticipated books of 2014; Roxane Gay mines the troubling notion that female protagonists must be likable; Smashwords founder Mark Coker reported that the self-published e-book distributor added around 25,000 authors last year; and other news.
Donna Tartt’s novel The Goldfinch has caused a spike in ticket sales at the Frick Museum; Paul Theroux reads “The Letter Writers” by British author Elizabeth Taylor; Dorothea Lasky discusses the power of poetry; and other news.
The Daily Beast offers a life-affirming reading list; Kitchen Sink Press has donated its archives to Columbia University; test your literary knowledge with a quiz gleaned from Jeopardy champion Tom Nissley’s A Reader’s Book of Days; and other news.
Two new e-book services, the New York City–based Oyster and San Francisco–based Scribd, introduce a Netflix-like service for the literary set, offering unlimited access to digital libraries by subscription.
An in-depth look at the numbers behind the grants and awards given to writers in 2013.
After nearly three decades defunct, December magazine, a journal founded in 1958 that published early work by some of the country's literary greats, makes its revival.
