Bel Canto Trailer Released, Apple to Adapt Pachinko for Screen, and More
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Genre: Creative Nonfiction
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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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New Hemingway Story, Min Jin Lee on Minor Characters, and More
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Sentenced to a Sentence
“‘Not X, but also not not X.’” In a recent piece for the New York Times, Sam Anderson examines a sentence structure pattern that reappears frequently in Keith Gessen’s novel A Terrible Country (Viking, 2018). Anderson notes that many authors tend to repeat sentence structures in a move that reflects a particular worldview or expresses the author’s thought process in some way. Browse through your writing and search for one of your own signature sentence structures. Reflect and write about what this style reveals of your philosophies or how your mind works.
Vermont College of Fine Arts—Writing for Children & Young Adults
MFA Program
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Montpelier, VT
Application Deadline:
Wed, 10/01/2025
Application Fee:
$75
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Literati Bookstore
Literati Bookstore is an independent bookstore in downtown Ann Arbor. Literati aims to be a place where book lovers can go, talk, and interact with each other. They host author readings, book clubs, poetry nights, and are open seven days a week.
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BookTubers, Arundhati Roy on Listening, and More
Abrams acquires Overlook Press; Morgan Parker on her new poetry collection, Magical Negro; why doctors should read fiction; and other news.
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Publishing guru Judith Appelbaum has died; why we reread childhood books as an adult; a look back on the Penguin Group–Random House merger; and other news.
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