Akashic Books Launches Grief Imprint, Missing Joyce Scholar, and More
Apple’s new Books app; Mike McCormack wins the €100,000 International Dublin Literary Award; Stephen King app for smart speakers; and other news.
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Porochista Khakpour
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Porochista Khakpour reads from her essay “How to Write Iranian-America, or The Last Essay” and talks to Northwestern University professor Brian Edwards about her writing interests and the publishing industry. Khakpour’s debut memoir, Sick (Harper Perennial, 2018), is featured in Page One in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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The Savvy Self-Publisher: Ethan Senturia
An entrepreneur self-publishes a book about the failure of his business. An editor and publicist weigh in.
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Severe Weather in the Sunshine State: A Profile of Lauren Groff
Florida isn’t just the title of Lauren Groff’s new story collection, published in June by Riverhead Books; it’s also a bad joke, a good home, a source of inspiration, a set of contradictions, and, perhaps, ultimately a state of mind.
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Literary MagNet: Chelsea Hodson
An essayist discusses five journals that published work from her debut collection, Tonight I’m Someone Else.
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Dorthe Nors and Helena Kelly
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“There are so many women who are not married, and don’t have children, out there; there are so many of us but it’s still a bit provocative to write about.” In this interview for BBC News, Dorthe Nors talks about Jane Austen, writing about women, and her novel Mirror, Shoulder, Signal (Graywolf Press, 2018), with Helena Kelly, author of the biography Jane Austen, the Secret Radical (Knopf, 2017).
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Nobel Prize Scandal Grows, Poetry World Cup, and More
A new series of books and novels inspired by Stranger Things; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wins PEN Pinter Prize; NPR’s summer poll on horror books; and other news.
Presses Revive Midwestern Classics, Campaign to Restore George Eliot’s Home, and More
Lionel Shriver accuses Penguin Random House of being “drunk on virtue”; Anthony Bourdain remembered; dictionaries take to social media; and other news.
Anthony Bourdain Has Died, Griffin Poetry Prizes Announced, and More
Poetry readership is up; behind the New York Times best-seller lists; Books for Africa ships millions of books to Africa; and other news.
Kamila Shamsie Wins Women’s Prize for Fiction, Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Novel, and More
Knopf buys debut novel for seven figures; poet Victoria Chang on revision; the sidewalk bookseller who befriended Phillip Roth; and other news.
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