Tags: novel
What Hollywood Owes Writers, Epistolary Novels, and More
National Book Foundation launches program for LGBTQ teens; Tournament of Books brackets posted; Robert Lowell’s complicated relationships with women; and other news.
Snowstorm Books, Wallace Stegner Novel Adaptation, and More
The endurance of bad similes; Joyce Carol Oates interviewed; former New Republic editor launching new journal with Steve Jobs’s widow; and other news.
Star Translator Ann Goldstein, Be a Bridge Bard, and More
Iran censors “wine” in books; National Book Foundation’s Innovations in Reading Prize submissions now open; poet and Omnidawn Publishing cofounder Rusty Morrison talks about her work as an editor and poet; and other news.
Tolerance Anthology Translated Into English, Anticipated Book Adaptations, and More
Charles Baxter remembers poet Larry Levis; Virginia Quarterly Review’s literary Instagram experiment; Nobel Prize losers of 1965; and other news.
NaNoWriMo Begins, T. S. Eliot’s Forgotten Cat Poem, and More
Jorie Graham’s modernist poetry; Amazon Publishing launches poetry contest; James Franco narrates Vonnegut audiobook; and other news.
President Obama Interviews Marilynne Robinson, Amazon Invests $10 Million in Translation Imprint, and More
Joshua Cohen writes serialized novel in real time; “speakeasy” bookstore shows signs of reopening; a visit to poet Anna Ahkmatova’s apartment; and other news.
AWP Under Fire, Ferrante Fever, and More
The turmoil behind Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman; on marriage, writing, and Clarice Lispector; the total weirdness of the book tour; and other news.
Growing a Literary Garden, the Art of the Sex Scene, and More
What to read in the dog days of summer; libraries on bikes; a children's book that induces hypnosis; and other news.
Little Free Library Crackdown, Langston Hughes Production, and More
Poet Elise Partridge has died; Harper Lee novel number one at Amazon; authenticity in fiction; and other news.