Isabel Allende Wins Lifetime Achievement Award, Great Sentences, and More
Elizabeth Metzger on Max Ritvo’s last poems; Barnes & Noble opens new prototype store; Dutch theater company adapts A Little Life; and other news.
Genre: Poetry
Man Booker Prize Shortlist, New York Times Critics on the Nobel, and More
Ian Buruma out at New York Review of Books; Bob Woodward’s Fear is the fastest-selling book in Simon & Schuster’s history; New York Media to triple its book coverage; and other news.
Danez Smith Wins Forward Prize, Stormy Daniels Memoir Leaked, and More
Doron Weber to receive National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award; essayist Elissa Washuta on addiction and writing; Khaled Hosseini’s new book on the Syrian refugee crisis; and other news.
AI Lion Spits Poetry, the Twenty-First Century Literary Canon, and More
Dwight Garner reviews the conclusion of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle series; Emma Ramadan on translation; Apple releases revamped books app; and other news.
The Robots Are Coming
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“They await counterintelligence / transmissions from our laptops / and our blue teeth, await word / of humanity’s critical mass, / our ripening.” Kyle Dargan’s poem “The Robots Are Coming” is brought to life in this animated Motionpoems film by Julia Iverson. Dargan’s new poetry collection, Anagnorisis (TriQuarterly Books, 2018), is featured in Page One in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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You Were Always More
“Now, you are a haze, your body turned to watercolor…. You were always more than metal; you were the dream of the thousands of scientists who built you,” muses science writer Shannon Stirone in her National Geographic essay “Dear Cassini: Why the Saturn Spacecraft Brings Me to Tears.” The essay is a farewell letter to NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which ended its decades of exploration last year with a deliberate plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere. Taking inspiration from the emotional lyricism of Stirone’s sentiments, write a poem to an object of global importance that is now long gone, starting with the phrase “You were always more than….”
Ten Questions for Emily Jungmin Yoon
“I find that poems in my head become louder when everything is quiet.” —Emily Jungmin Yoon, author of A Cruelty Special to Our Species
Roald Dahl’s Matilda at Thirty, Dayton Literary Peace Prizes, and More
Haruki Murakami withdraws his nomination for the alternative Nobel Prize; Ian Buruma on his decision to publish Jian Ghomeshi; imagined Tinder exchanges between literature’s great couples; and other news.
National Book Award Longlist in Fiction, Secret Library Apartments, and More
The Jane Austen Pineapple Appreciation Society; Mark Tauber to lead new nonfiction imprint at Chronicle Books; the growth of Chinese American literature; and other news.
National Book Award Longlist in Poetry, Stormy Daniels Memoir, and More
Bob Woodward’s Fear has already sold 1 million copies; romance novelist charged with killing husband; the fight over Franz Kafka’s manuscripts; and other news.
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