John Casey's Writing Desk
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National Novel Writing Month, Dzanc's eBook Club, and More
Dzanc Books starts an eBook Club; Melbourne's secondhand bookstores; National Novel Writing Month kicks off today; protests at Arundhati Roy's home in Delhi; and other news.
The New Broom
A survey of professional opinions, including those of the New Yorker's Paul Muldoon and the Southern Review's Jeanne Leiby, about the Paris Review's decision to reject previously accepted poems.
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Introducing the Teachable Lit Mag
The new Lit Mag Adoption Program is designed to introduce journals into creative writing course curricula and engage student writers as readers and members of a national literary community.
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Digital Digest: Writers Rolling Back the Revolution
A look at the retro text editors and Web applications that more and more writers are using to roll back the reach of new media.
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VQR’s Future in Doubt After Tragedy
The Virginia Quarterly Review was rocked by the July 30 suicide of its managing editor, Kevin Morrissey, leaving the award-winning magazine’s future in doubt, as well as that of its editor.
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Inside Indie Bookstores: McNally Jackson Books in New York City
In the sixth installment of our series Inside Indie Bookstores, contributor Jeremiah Chamberlin travels to New York City to speak with Sarah McNally, owner of McNally Jackson Books.
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The Written Image: Beyond the Words
Portraits of Henry Miller “as a demon” and Guillaume Apollinaire, two of the thirty pieces featured in Beyond the Words: Author Portraits by Carl Köhler, currently on exhibit at the University of Chicago’s Joseph Regenstein Library.
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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 Leslie Marmon Silko's The Turquoise Ledge and Julia Franck's The Blindness of the Heart, as the starting point for a closer look at these new and noteworthy titles.
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Fictional Mad Men Character to Publish Real Memoir, Never-Ending E-books, and More
A fictional TV character publishes a real world memoir; most college students still prefer print books over e-books; Melville House pulls out of the Best Translated Book awards; the Telegraph sponsor's Britain's Hay Festival; and other news.
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