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A literary club in Saudi Arabia is targeted by arsonists; books now outnumber games in the iTunes store; the recently debunked Hiroshima book sees an upturn in fortune and sales; Tim Burton acquires the film rights to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter; and other news.
Mississippi writer Barry Hannah has died three days before a conference is to honor his life's work; a Chinese writer is placed under house arrest for attempting to attend a literary festival; a new biography attempts to label Kapuscinski as a fiction writer; the Lamda Literary Foundation launches an new online journal and blog community; and other news.
Agent Katherine Fausset answers questions from readers about the agent's role in submitting work to literary magazines and
Edna St. Vincent Millay's home in Austerlitz, New York, will be opened to the public; the New York Times reports on the blurring line between plagiarism and "appropration;" Australia's oldest literary festival kicks off this week; a library in Pennsylvania loans Kindles; and other news.
A look at one of the images from Fallen Books—a collection of photographs from earthquake-rattled libraries, published by the Paris-based independent Onestar Press in 2008—which will be on display at the BRIC Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, from March 25 to May 1.
After six years of running Soul Mountain Retreat at her own home in East Haddam, Connecticut, founder and executive director Marilyn Nelson speaks about her experience as she enters her final year at the helm of the unique retreat.
When wildfire tore through Dorland Mountain Arts Colony in the spring of 2004, nearly everything, aside from some tall oak trees, was destroyed. Now, after almost six years of fund-raising, brainstorming, architectural planning, and construction, Dorland is once again welcoming writers.
In this new feature, we offer a few suggestions for podcasts, smartphone apps, Web tools, newsletters, museum shows, and gallery openings: a medley of literary curiosities that you might enjoy. And if you don't? Quit complaining, they're free.
Advancements in print-on-demand technology, such as the Espresso Book Machine, are offering publishers and authors alike new opportunities to bridge the still-pronounced divide between electronic and "tangible" publishing.
After we sharerd our list of the fifty most inspiring authors in the world, we asked our readers to add their favorites. Culled from the responses on pw.org and our Facebook page, here are the results.
