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In this regular feature, we offer a few suggestions for podcasts, apps, web tools, newsletters, museum shows, and gallery openings: a medley of literary curiosities for readers and writers on a budget.
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Digital Digest: Apps Reveal Reading’s Social Side
The newly launched Findings, an online community that lets users compile and contribute excerpts from books and websites, joins a growing number of digital endeavors that place a new emphasis on sharing while reading.
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Bodwell’s Baker’s Dozen
In the spirit of year-end best-of reading lists, we offer Joshua Bodwell’s Baker’s Dozen 2011 as a companion to his article “You Are What You Read: The Art of Inspired Reading Lists,” which appears in the January/February 2012 issue's special section on inspiration.
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A Novel Approach: Learning to Write More Than Stories
The Grub Street literary center has created a long-form fiction class that might offer a cure for the novel-writing anxiety that the traditionally story-centric MFA workshop isn’t equipped to resolve.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
With so many good books being published every month, some literary titles worth exploring can get lost in the stacks. Page One offers the first lines of a dozen recently released books, including Ben Marcus’s The Flame Alphabet and Amy Newman’s Dear Editor, as the starting point for a closer look at these new and noteworthy titles.
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Literary MagNet
Literary MagNet chronicles the start-ups and closures, successes and failures, anniversaries and accolades, changes of editorship and special issues—in short, the news and trends—of literary magazines. This issue’s MagNet features New World Writing, Transition, Asymptote, the White Review, Granta, the Dark Horse, and Versal.
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Q&A: Some Assembly May Be Required
Polly Becker, a Boston-based artist who in her formative years was influenced stylistically by artists such as Edward Gorey, Alphonse Mucha, and Aubrey Beardsley, speaks about the assemblages she created for the cover and our special section on inspiration.
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The Written Image: Kenneth Patchen
In this issue we offer a look at one of Kenneth Patchen’s “picture-poems,” currently on display in An Astonished Eye: The Art of Kenneth Patchen, the largest-ever exhibition of the genre-defying writer’s visual work, at the University of Rochester in New York.
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Wimpy Kid Lawsuit, "I Hate Jonathan Safran Foer," and More
Jeff Kinney, the author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books, is suing Antarctic Press over its publication of a book titled Diary of a Zombie Kid; Seamus Heaney has donated his literary archive to the National Library of Ireland; Novelist Kate Christensen has launched a food blog; and other news.
Michael Chabon Criticizes e-Royalties, Neal Pollack's Candor, and More
Michael Chabon criticizes the industry standard e-book royalty rate; Neal Pollack writes with candor about his career trajectory; an NYU professor has filed a lawsuit claiming he was fired as a result of a poor grade given to actor James Franco; and other news.
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