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Patti Smith honored for the poetry of her music; Russia's most famous inmate pens prison stories; Seattle faces a week without libraries; Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has Austen at its heart; and other stories.
Christopher Fritton of the Western New York Book Arts Center demonstrates the process of creating part of a book for the artist Richard Tuttle.
We’ve compiled this annual guide to graduate creative writing programs—which includes our rankings of the top full- and low-residency MFA programs (with honorable mentions) and, new to this year, doctoral programs—to provide a spark for the deep thinking and serious consideration that the process of choosing a program requires.
Answers to the most commonly asked questions about our rankings of full-residency, low-residency, and doctoral programs in creative writing.
Directors, coordinators, and professors of full- and low-residency MFA programs offer some advice for prospective students trying to decide which programs are right for them.
Libyan bookseller reopens shop after revolt; Kashmir's literary festival is canceled; Goethe Prize goes to Syrian poet; Ann Patchett on making the writer's life; and other news.
Earlier this month Random House published the paperback edition of Let's Take the Long Way Home, Gail Caldwell's memoir of her friendship with Caroline Knapp, author of Drinking: A Love Story (The Dial Press, 1996), who died of lung cancer at age forty-two in 2002.
A number of bookstores on the East Coast were hit hard by Hurricane Irene; a group of novelists imagine Moammar Gadhafi's current state of mind; media critic Jack Shafter advises journalists to "always be looking for your next gig"; and other news.
In September Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish South African author Jacques Strauss's debut novel, The Dubious Salvation of Jack V., about eleven-year-old Jack Viljee, whose hometown of Johannesburg in 1989 is still ruled by apartheid.
Seth Fried, whose story collection The Great Frustration was published by Soft Skull Press in May, finds a simple way of getting good placement of his debut book in the Union Square Barnes & Noble in New York City.
