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Thanks to the accessibility of new digital tools offered by booksellers such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble, self-publishing is loosing its stigma and holds new promise for writers venturing out on their own.
Administrators offer insight into the mystifying process of applying to a writing retreat by answering some common questions: How do residency juries weigh a work plan? Would your boss make a better reference than a former writing teacher? Is published or unpublished work more desirable in a writing sample?
Sherman Alexie, winner of the other NBA, along with other poets and writers, shows off his jump shot in HooPalousa, a basketball tournament-cum-fund-raiser that aims to help create an endowment at the University of Idaho for a Native American MFA candidate.
With so many good books being published every month, some literary titles worth exploring can get lost in the stacks. Page One offers the first lines of a dozen recently released books, including Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues and Adam Levin’s Hot Pink, as the starting point for a closer look at these new and noteworthy titles.
Publication statistics for 2011 have been compiled and released by VIDA: Women in Literary Arts; the Paris Review Daily looks at the twenty-five year friendship between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson; Filmmaker Scott Teems remembers his friend and collaborator, the novelist William Gay; and other news.
The Big Think examines how new generations of readers respond to J. D. Salinger's infamous Holden Caulfield; the Examiner reports of a shake-up at the Columbia College Chicago writing program; Dinty W. Moore weighs in on the controversy surrounding John D’Agata; and other news.
Native New Orleanian John Biguenet, author of seven books and many prizewinning plays, highlights postflood literary New Orleans—"a palimpsest" on which "the past bleeds through the fresh culture now being inscribed over the submerged text, centuries old."
Alexander Nazaryan details the dustup over a recent Jonathan Franzen essay on Edith Wharton; the Guardian examines how online readers band together to catch plagiarists; Maria Bustillos writes of the remarkable and surprising literary career of actress Ally Sheedy; and other news.
The Hollywood Reporter examines what happens when book publishers take control of film production; the significance of John Berryman’s The Dream Songs; Laura Miller weighs in on the death of chick lit; and other news.
Novelist Patricia O’Brien was having a difficult time landing a publisher for her sixth book, until she chose the pseudonym Kate Alcott; Little, Brown will publish a novel intended for adults by J. K. Rowling; the Millions asks, "Where do you write?" and provides intimate details of the work spaces of its writers; and other news.
