Boston Builds Edgar Allan Poe Statue, Pelican Books to Fly Again, and More
Staff Going to the library increases happiness; Camille Rankine and Mary Gaitskill on the importance of being earnest; gay sex in fiction; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1...
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Finally Found Books
Finally Found Books boasts a collection of over 100,000 new, used, and out-of-print titles, as well as a comfy sitting area for groups to meet. All children twelve and under are given a book from the...
View ArticleDeadline Approaches for Paris Review Writer-in-Residence
Submissions are currently open for the Paris Review's Writer-in-Residence program. Cosponsored by the Standard’s East Village hotel in New York City, the three-week residency, valued at $7,500, is...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on Kindness
"I'd say, as a goal in life, you could do worse than 'Try to be kinder.'" In May 2013 George Saunders gave a commencement speech at Syracuse University. It was recently published as a book,...
View ArticleMary Roach
The author of five books, including her most recent, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, talks about her favorite authors, how she chooses what to write, where she finds her subjects, and whether...
View ArticleAmazon Announces 23 Percent Sales Increase, The Ten Best Sentences in English...
Staff An Orlando-based bookstore goes local; Margaret Atwood and Dave Eggers in comics; Urban Dictionary’s take on Virginia Woolf; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the...
View ArticleElizabeth Gilbert
In this video from a TED conference in March, Elizabeth Gilbert reflects on why success can be as disorienting as failure and offers a simple—though hard—way to carry on, regardless of...
View ArticleDialect
Take a moment to think about where you are from. If that's not so easy to pin down, think instead about a place that's had an impact on you, a place in which you've spent a relatively long time, or the...
View ArticleHarper Lee Permits To Kill a Mockingbird E-book, the Search for Miguel de...
Staff Bear Grylls to pen thrillers; “ambush poetry” in Las Vegas; the trouble with labeling women’s writing; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day...
View ArticleDaydream Believer
Spring can at times seem like one long daydream. Does one of your characters have the habit of drifting off into a fantasy world? This week, write out one of these daydreams. Use plenty of surreal...
View ArticleGravity Author Sues Warner Bros., Professor Protests National Poetry Month,...
Staff Idaho parents call police on teen for distributing a banned book to other students; Dave Eggers's original, and less than flattering, review of Infinite Jest; state attorneys accuse Apple of...
View Article"Human Events"
In this Single Sentence Animation for Electric Literature, Martha Colburn animates "Human Events" by Stephen O'Connor. Music by Thollem...
View ArticleWinners on Winning: Dexter L. Booth
For the third installment in our weekly Winners on Winning series, we spoke with poet Dexter L. Booth, who was selected by Major Jackson as the winner of the 2012 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for his...
View Article"21"
Patrick Roche performs his poem "21" at the 2014 College Unions Poetry Slam at the University of Colorado in Boulder.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LnMhy8kDiQ
View ArticleWeird Food
No matter how adventurous an eater you are, there's bound to be some foods that immediately turn you off. It could be the smell, the texture, or just the way it looks that makes it unpalatable. This...
View ArticleJunot Díaz on the Lack of Diversity in MFA Programs, Octavia Butler’s Lost...
Staff The Bible as America’s favorite book; the popularity of Rumi; an introduction to the best Chinese literature in translation; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the...
View ArticleHarperCollins to Acquire Harlequin, BookBub Raises $3.8 Million, and More
Staff Will Self on the death of the novel; Diane Keaton’s favorite books; a digital campaign for diversity in literature; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article....
View ArticleLawrence Weschler
The former New Yorker staff writer and director emeritus of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU delivered this keynote address, "A Typology of Convergences: Towards a Unified Field Theory...
View ArticleDeadline Approaches for the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize
The American Poetry Review is currently accepting submissions for the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize for Younger Poets. The annual prize is given for a poem or group of poems written by a poet under 40....
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Jessica Hendry Nelson
nelson_crop.jpgWriter Photo Credit: Greg Comollo "I write with my whole body. It's best if I'm alone because surely I look like a maniac. Forget coffee shops. Librarians have eyed me warily. Even...
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