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Amazon may be in the process of opening a brick-and-mortar store; the moving Chrysler commercial featuring Clint Eastwood that aired during the Super Bowl was co-written by poet Matthew Dickman; the Brooklyn Public Library looks at evidence that perhaps Herman Melvile met Edgar Allan Poe; and other news.
The New Yorker examines the plagiarism scandal of Q. R. Markham; Abdulrahman Zeitoun, the hero of Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, was arrested last year for domestic abuse; Open Culture lists a compendium of writing rules from famous authors; and other news.
Melville House wonders when publishers will speak out about Amazon; New York City's Algonquin Hotel announced that when it reopens this spring after a renovation, the famed Oak Room will be gone; E. B. White answers a charge levied by the ASPCA; and more
Nobel prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, as well as Surrealist artist and poet Dorothea Tanning, passed away yesterday in their respective countries; novelist Paul Auster has engaged in a war of words with Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister of Turkey; Open Letters Monthly examines the hidden life of Virginia Woolf's institutionalized half-sister, Laura Makepeace Stephen; and other news.
GalleyCat reports adult hardcover sales were down in November; Oxford professor of poetry Geoffrey Hill offers choice words for the United Kingdom's poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy; Sherman Alexie responds to a ban of ethnic studies in Tucson classrooms; and other news.
Chinese activist Zhu Yufu is facing a prison sentence for a poem he circulated on the Internet; Melville House ponders if James Franco's forthcoming novel will be a bestseller; eighteen days before Charles Bukowski died, he faxed a poem to his publisher; and other news.
Jonathan Galassi's new book, Left-handed, tells the story of a married man in mid-life who discovers he's gay; novelist Justin Torres and his mom, Theresa, recall their versions of a crisis that happened when Justin was a teenager; publishing industry veteran Jane Friedman explains how to get your book published; and other news.
Tess Gallagher, Raymond Carver's widow, has filed a lawsuit against Skyhorse Publishing over Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver; Radhika Jones explains why she loves reading Charles Dickens; Susan Orlean discusses her love of Faulkner; and other news.
Business Week focuses on the work of Larry Kirshbaum, the book-industry veteran hired last May to head Amazon Publishing; the Millions examines copyright and the future of intellectual property; Paris Review Daily reveals the odd and interwoven events surrounding the publication of Jack Green's Fire the Bastards!; and other news.
Executive director Tree Swenson will leave the the Academy of American Poets; Alexander Nazaryan explains why Vladimir Putin's recent literary proposal is an assault on freedom; author Luc Sante writes of his first encounter with the work of Patti Smith; and other news.
