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Last week Chicago mayor Richard Daley proclaimed April 23, the 445th birthday of William Shakespeare, to be Talk Like Shakespeare Day throughout the city. On Thursday residents of Chicago are encouraged to incorporate phrases such as "prithee," "thou," "fie!" and "knave" into their everyday conversations as a way to celebrate the lasting influence of the Bard and his work.
PEN Slovakia, a division of International PEN, has denounced "from an ethical and moral point of view" a Slovakian literary journal for publishing poems by indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic.
On the second Saturday of this month, a renovated turn-of-the-century electrical parts factory in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens was aglow with jovial literary energy, much of which was generated in response to the albatross of many a writer: student loan debt.
In preparation for our upcoming July/August issue, we want to hear from you: What books do you, as a writer who reads deeply year-round, turn to in the warm months ahead?
The American Library Association yesterday released its annual
list of the country’s most frequently challenged books. Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel The Kite Runner was among them.
Earlier this month, Brian Turner, Buddy Wakefield, Ofelia Zepeda, and other poets gathered in the desert for the twenty-seventh annual Tucson Poetry Festival.
Yesterday, less than three months after a round of layoffs at Publishers Weekly that resulted in the departure of editor Sara Nelson, the industry trade magazine's parent company, Reed Business Information, laid off three more editors.
Design-savvy fans of Chuck Palahniuk, author of novels such as Fight Club and Choke, have an opportunity to contribute to the promotional campaign for his forthcoming novel, Pygmy, to be published by Doubleday next month.
Poets Jorie Graham and Yusef Komunyakaa and fiction writers T. C. Boyle and Richard Price will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in a ceremony next month.
Random House announced recently that it has partnered with the literary and human rights organization PEN American Center to publish the 2009 O. Henry Prize Stories collection.
