Poetic Pilgrimages, Nobel Prize Betting Breakdown, and More
Funny books recommended by funny writers; mislabeling story collections as novels; poetry and the urban experience; and other news.
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How the Internet Helps Indies, Twitter Essays, and More
National Book Award finalists announced; on women writers’ privacy and author photos; Junot Díaz on the role of the humanities; and other news.
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American Writers Museum Names President, Anne Sexton’s Letters, and More
October book recommendations; National Book Award winner Phil Klay’s open letter to Donald Trump; how novelists write about climate change; and other news.
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Free Books for Life, Singapore’s Multilingual Literature, and More
A reader’s guide to the fall’s big literary awards; The Women of Brewster Place novelist Gloria Naylor has died; London theater will present the first stage adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels; and other news.
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Reading Other Women, Sound and Syntax, and More
PEN appoints Saeed Jones and Hanya Yanagihara to its board of trustees; Mary Karr on memoir and the faults of memory; on the success of Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train; and other news.
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Seamus Heaney Center Opens to Public, Trayvon Martin’s Parents to Publish Memoir, and More
President Obama proclaims October as National Arts and Humanities Month; National Book Foundation announces 5 Under 35 honorees; Hollywood’s “most sought-after word nerds”; and other news.
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Maya Angelou Documentary, Shirley Jackson’s Revival, and More
Viet Than Nguyen on cultural appropriation; Stephen King’s “singular weirdness”; Authors Guild condemns Google’s “commercial use of expressive authorship”; and other news.
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Celebrating Censored Poetry, Capote’s Ashes, and More
Earnest versus cool prose; how poetry defamiliarizes experience; Adonis on poetry as salvation; and other news.
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The History of Banned Books, Whitman’s Empathy, and More
James Patterson cancels publication of novel The Murder of Stephen King; Lidia Yuknavitch reimagines Joan of Arc; PEN releases report on China’s censorship of foreign journalists; and other news.
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Claudia Rankine Awarded “Genius Grant,” Books on the American Immigrant Experience, and More
New Yorker profiles Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden; a reflection on Langston Hughes’s “I, Too”; Emma Donoghue on Emily Dickinson; and other news.
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