Folio Prize Shortlist Announced
The shortlist for the 2015 Folio Prize for fiction was announced today. The eight finalists, selected from a list of eighty works, are 10:04 by Ben Lerner (Granta), All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews...
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March/April 2015 Ryan Lee Wong State: New York Kundiman, the New York City–based organization that hosts a prestigious annual retreat for Asian American poets, celebrates its ten-year anniversary by...
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"I think ideas for independent films often make decent plots for novels because they're human." Actor David Duchovny speaks about how an idea for a screenplay turned into his debut novel, Holy Cow,...
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View ArticleFrom the Heart
The ancient Greeks believed that the heart was the seat of everything, not only emotion but reason as well. The Romans then developed an entire theory around the circulatory system, concluding that the...
View ArticleTracy K. Smith Homepage Photo
homepage_tracyksmith.jpgTracy K. Smith, author most recently of Ordinary Light and featured in Poets & Writers Magazine, March/April 2015.March/April 2015 Credit: Christy Whitney...
View ArticleAgents & Editors: Jennifer Joel
March/April 2015 Michael Szczerban State: New York Jennifer Joel, whose clients include Chris Cleave, Joe McGinniss Jr., Evan Osnos, and Shonda Rhimes, talks about the difference between selling...
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Is one of your characters overwhelmed by all the tasks she needs to do on a daily basis? Have her hire a family member as a personal assistant. Maybe her retired father or grandmother needs a part-time...
View ArticleLife on Mars
The interplanetary travel nonprofit Mars One is holding a competition for those eager to be the first humans to live on Mars. One of the finalists has said, “If I die on Mars, that would be an...
View ArticleKundiman Expands to Fiction
March/April 2015 Ryan Lee Wong State: New York Kundiman, the New York City–based organization that hosts a prestigious annual retreat for Asian American poets, celebrates its ten-year anniversary by...
View ArticleMarch/April 2015
Issue Volume/NumberVolume: 43 Issue: March/April Year: 2015 Cover StorySummary: Our Writers Retreats Issue features stories of life-changing conferences and residencies; profiles of Pulitzer...
View ArticleHoly Cow
"I think ideas for independent films often make decent plots for novels because they're human." Actor David Duchovny speaks about how an idea for a screenplay turned into his debut novel, Holy Cow,...
View ArticleReading a Book One Hundred Times, French Bookstore Corners, and More
Staff Writer lore; Tom Wolfe exhibit; English spelling conventions; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the...
View ArticleFrom the Heart
The ancient Greeks believed that the heart is the seat of everything, not only emotion but reason as well. The Romans then developed an entire theory around the circulatory system, concluding that the...
View ArticleTracy K. Smith Homepage Photo
homepage_tracyksmith.jpgTracy K. Smith, author most recently of Ordinary Light and featured in Poets & Writers Magazine, March/April 2015.March/April 2015 Credit: Christy Whitney...
View ArticleAgents & Editors: Jennifer Joel
March/April 2015 Michael Szczerban State: New York Jennifer Joel, whose clients include Chris Cleave, Joe McGinniss Jr., Evan Osnos, and Shonda Rhimes, talks about the difference between selling...
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