Literary Resolutions, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy Made a Dame, and More
The year of the female essayist; Melville House sells out of Torture Report in one day; the history of pulp fiction; and other news.
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Charles D'Ambrosio: Washington, D.C. 2014
Charles D'Ambrosio reads from his new collection of essays, Loitering: New and Collected Essays, published by Tin House Books in November, at the Poets & Writers Live event in Washington, D.C. on October 25, 2014. Introduction by Kevin...
Charles D'Ambrosio: Washington, D.C. 2014
Charles D'Ambrosio reads from his new collection of essays, Loitering: New and Collected Essays, published by Tin House Books in November, at the Poets & Writers Live event in Washington, D.C. on October 25, 2014. Introduction by Kevin...
Tom Hanks to Publish Short Story Collection, David Foster Wallace’s Fiction Syllabus, and More
Downloading Pushkin on the Moscow metro; your brain on well-constructed stories; remembering James Laughlin; and other news.
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National Novel Writing Month, Lena Dunham Cancels Book Tour Dates, and More
Publishing icon Oscar Dystel remembered; a step-by-step guide to reading poetry; illness can’t stop Clive James from writing; and other news.
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Lesser-Known Literary Monsters, the History of Zombie Research, and More
A morbid literary tour of Los Angeles; “artisanal terror”; PEN America’s first editions auction; and other news.
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Poe’s Raven Forevermore, Literature of the Strange, and More
A British University abolishes library fines; children’s books fuel revenue growth; poet August Kleinzahler will lecture in D.C. series; and other news.
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92nd Street Y at Seventy-Five, Malcolm Lowry’s Lost Manuscript, and More
Authors to auction off character names for charity; Halloween costumes of famous authors; post-apocalyptic novels; and other news.
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The Written Image: Windows on the World
Artist and architect Matteo Pericoli pairs drawings of views from the desks of writers around the world with essays by those writers about where they write, what they see, and how their view informs their work
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The Unspeakable by Meghan Daum
Meghan Daum reads two excerpts from her essay collection The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion, forthcoming in November from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
From the Introduction
For more than twenty years...
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