Poets With Disabilities, Poets of Partition, and More
Vogue visits the set of HBO’s adaptation of My Brilliant Friend; musician Jeff Tweedy to publish memoir in November; PBS’s search for America’s favorite novel; and other news.
Genre: Creative Nonfiction
American Book Awards Announced, the Sentimental Library, and More
Finalists for 2018 Dayton Literary Peace Prizes announced; chatbot has written more that twelve million poems; MacDowell Colony executive director Cheryl Young to retire next year; and other news.
V. S. Naipaul’s Nobel Prize Speech
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In this video, V. S. Naipaul accepts the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature and reads his speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm. Described by the Swedish Academy as “a literary circumnavigator,” the prolific author published more than a dozen novels and several nonfiction books. Naipaul died at the age of eighty-five on August 11, 2018.
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V. S. Naipaul Has Died, Barnes and Noble in Trouble, and More
How poets of color are changing contemporary poetry; writers on whether you need a creative writing MFA; revisiting Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poetry; and other news.
Balloon Stories, James Baldwin’s Legacy, and More
Ilya Kaminsky on returning to his hometown; Anthony Bourdain fan fiction; a bank robber’s debut novel; and other news.
Sing Sing Book Reviewer Identified, Library Snakes, and More
Poet Anya Silver has died; Langston Hughes’s true birth year; the politics of erasure; and other news.
Go, Lemon, Go!
What does a rolling lemon gather? Apparently, a mass of viewers. Since photographer Mike Sakasegawa posted a two-minute video of a lemon he saw rolling down a hill in San Diego on Twitter last month, the video has accumulated almost ten million views, and garnered thousands of comments of encouragement and feelings of inspiration. Write a personal essay about a time when you have been cheered up or inspired by a video or photo, perhaps documented by a stranger or from someone you know. What was it about the imagery that provoked this positive response? Explore any memories or associations that might have made your viewing particularly resonant or emotional at that moment.
Bel Canto Trailer Released, Apple to Adapt Pachinko for Screen, and More
Poet Justin Phillip Reed on his debut collection; books written like television; fan fiction goes mainstream; and other news.
AWP and University of Maryland Part Ways, Flipback Books, and More
22 percent of women report being sexually harassed in the publishing industry; Astrid Holleeder’s blockbuster true-crime novel translated into English; dictionary controversy; and other news.
Boy Erased
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Boy Erased is a film based on Garrard Conley’s 2016 coming-of-age memoir of the same name. Lucas Hedges stars as a young man who is forced by his fundamental Baptist parents, played by Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman, to attend a gay conversion therapy program. The film is written and directed by Joel Edgerton, who also costars as the program’s head therapist.
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