Amazon to Open NYC Bookstore This Year, Book Deserts, and More
Upcoming screen adaptations of popular novels; Medium changes business model and cuts jobs; Central and South American books to read this year; and other news.
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From the Magazine
Claudia Rankine to Fund Racial Imaginary Institute, Sleep at Dracula’s Castle, and More
Janitor-turned-writer Thom Jones has died; five writers on their new books; best-selling authors release short digital “singles” in advance of their novels; and other news.
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To Fee or Not to Fee: A Writer’s Critique of Submission Fees
An author and veteran submitter to literary magazines questions the recent uptick in electronic submission fees and offers advice to the editors implementing them.
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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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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Subway Reads, the Linguistics of Clickbait, and More
PEN launches event series for Muslim American writers; Gene Wilder’s literary works; Cairo court upholds Egyptian writer’s prison sentence; and other news.
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Return of Serial Novels, Judy Blume Opens Bookstore, and More
Transforming history through art; Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich on giving voices to the voiceless; Alice James Books launches app; and other news.
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Whiting Award Winners Announced, the Dime Novel’s Return, and More
On the craft choices of debut novelists; BuzzFeed launches section for new writing; missing Hong Kong editor returns; and other news.
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Langston Hughes’s Legacy, Translating the Pope, and More
World Book Day; author Ethan Canin on creating emotional endings; recommended writers’ journals; and other news.
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An Inspired Archive of African Poetry
Since its founding in 2008, Badilisha Poetry X-Change has built the largest online archive of contemporary African poetry, including work by nearly four hundred poets from more than thirty countries across Africa and the diaspora. Now, with the launch of a new mobile site, Badilisha is making African poetry more accessible and interactive to millions of Africans.
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