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The Village Voice to shutter print weekly and go fully online; Cambridge University Press faces backlash for removing articles at Chinese government’s request; when the Harlem Renaissance went to communist Moscow; and other news.
Morgan Parker on resisting labels and embracing one’s fallibility; Thomas E. Ricks on rewriting his book after his editor hated it; the shifting focus of the New York Times book coverage; and other news.
Nicole Krauss on portraying uncertainty in fiction; science fiction writer Brian Aldiss has died; book recommendations for the existentialist; and other news.
A new podcast features artists and changemakers on their favorite poems; a collection of Yeats artwork and letters to go on display next month; the Dictionary of American Regional English to discontinue research due to lack of funding; and other news.
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s reading habits; an audio dramatization of Midnight’s Children commemorates Indian independence; the future of the social novel; and other news.
In a new program that debuted earlier this month, the majority of employees at a technology company in Wisconsin agreed to have microchips implanted into their hands, which allow them to swipe into the office building and purchase food at the cafeteria. Many of the employees see the program as an opportunity to participate in cutting-edge technology that they believe will be standard protocol in the near future. Given the choice, would you opt in or opt out? Write a personal essay about your perspective on this issue, perhaps exploring how your opinion about the incorporation of technology into everyday life may have changed over the years, and your feelings about the prospect of integrating technology into your body.
Megan Stielstra shares her journey as a writer and reads from her essay “Channel B,” which was included in Best American Essays and in her collection Once I Was Cool (Curbside Splendor, 2013). Her second essay collection, The Wrong Way to Save Your Life (Harper Perennial, 2017), is featured in Page One in the September/October 2017 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Tao Lin on writing to feel less lonely; Amit Chaudhuri makes a case against the Booker Prize; why and where to publish work in literary magazines; and other news.
It took Joyce Maynard twenty-five years of reflection, distance, and understanding to write her first memoir. But when tragedy struck later in life, her second memoir came much more quickly.
Beth Ann Fennelly highlights five journals that first published pieces appearing in her new book, Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs.
