Why We Write: Going Back to Where It Was
After finding him paging through her diary, a mother confronts the ethical and emotional struggles of writing about her son’s traumatic brain injury.
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The Written Image: Sorted Books
In her Sorted Books project, Nina Katchadourian arranges books from libraries—including William S. Burroughs’s personal collection, as well as those housed in museums and galleries across the country, to find a kind of poetry in the spines.
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Ferguson Public Library Sees Donations Spike, James Patterson Campaigns Against Reader Apathy, and More
PEN American Center’s Human Rights Day event; Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems reissued; poet Heather McHugh’s nonprofit; and other news.
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Politics and Prose Bookstore Opens Satellite Locations, Lemony Snicket Gets a Netflix Deal, and More
The case against “book-dropping”; literary characters who never die; the often-elusive titling process; and other news.
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This Thing I Made: Letterpress Meets High Tech at the IPRC
Writers take bookmaking into their own hands at Portland, Oregon’s Independent Publishing Resource Center.
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Coming Home to Writing: Exile and Literary Citizenship
Having left her home in Havana as a refugee at the age of three, an author explores the truth of what it means to be a writer in exile.
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Where We Write: New York City Via Bavaria, Germany
Learning to inhabit a new country and language helps a German-born writer discover her voice and understand how that voice hinges on the place in which she lives.
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Odds on Murakami for Nobel Prize, the Revelations of Marilynne Robinson, and More
Akashic Books to launch left-leaning sports imprint; Margaret Sullivan weighs in on Amazon-Hachette dispute; U.K. bookstores launch "Super Thursday"; and other news.
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Dallas High School Bans Books, the Problem with Sentimentality, and More
John Green campaigns for clean water in Ethiopia; J. R. R. Tolkein’s poem that inspired The Lord of the Rings; the inaugural Slate/Whiting Second Novel List; and other news.
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The Lack of Diversity in the Publishing Industry, Banned Books Week Begins, and More
Penguin launches Cartoon Network imprint; speed-reading a novel; the trouble with writing; and other news.
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