Poetry and Comics, the Problem of Creative Influence, and More
The influence of Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems on Mad Men; the anatomy of a best-seller; Ben-Hur update features larger roles for women characters; and other news.
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Elizabeth Alexander Elected to Pulitzer Board, Emoji Bible, and More
The lost art of memorizing poetry; Louise Erdrich on her new novel; American Psycho adaptation to close on Broadway; and other news.
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Colum McCann Assaulted, Burt Reynolds’s Memoir, and More
Mira Jacob remembers her first job; Edan Lepucki’s windfall; Charles Simic’s soccer addiction; and other news.
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The Brains of Creative Writers, Writer's Digest Ends Partnership with Author Solutions, and More
Rutgers appoints poet A. Van Jordan to faculty; BookStats discontinues services; NYPL to potentially restructure its board; and other news.
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Jonathan Safran Foer's Chipotle Series, Copyrighting the Divine, and More
AAR decries Amazon’s treatment of authors; the British Library unveils a new online collection; Ian McEwan’s archive heads to Austin; and other news.
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MacAdam Cage Authors Recoup Rights, David Foster Wallace Estate Decries Forthcoming Biopic, and More
Salman Rushdie examines Gabriel García Márquez’s magic realism; ZYZZYVA’s one hundredth issue; Charlotte Brontë’s Google doodle; and other news.
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TED Talks to Become Book Series, Philip Roth's Letter to the Editor, and More
Writers at the Atlantic look at writing and marriage; the effects of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s writing on his personal life; the death of Michael Rockefeller; and other news.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea Pens Memoir, Jane Goodall On Plagiarism, and More
Jimmy Carter signs 1,600 books; a road trip to film dead poets; Sherman Alexie book banned in Idaho; and other news.
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Simon & Schuster Rescinds Lefevre Contract, an App to Improve Reading Speed, and More
Helen Tartar, the editorial director of Fordham University Press, has died; coffee for making a deal with the devil; Tammany Hall’s good guys; and other news.
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Elizabeth Gilbert on Poet Jack Gilbert, Flannery O’Connor’s Prayer Journal, and More
Amazon has created a service called Amazon Source to entice independent booksellers to offer e-books and the Kindle; BuzzFeed has hired the Rumpus co-founder Isaac Fitzgerald as its first books editor; Thessaly La Force reports from the New York Public Library’s annual Library Lions Gala; and other news.
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