Personal Assistant
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 ArticleThe Buried Giant
In this forthcoming novel from the Booker Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro, a couple set off on a journey to find a son they have not seen in years. The Buried Giant (Knopf, 2015) is featured in...
View ArticleLiterary Marriage Portrayals, What Writers Owe Their Subjects, and More
Staff Mark Twain plaque thief arrested; “poet voice”; lack of grandparents in modern fiction; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day Poets & Writers...
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...
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Tracy 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...
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Agents & 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...
View ArticlePersonal Assistant
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 ArticleThe Buried Giant
In this forthcoming novel from the Booker Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro, a couple set off on a journey to find a son they have not seen in years. The Buried Giant (Knopf, 2015) is featured in...
View ArticleLiterary Marriage Portrayals, What Writers Owe Their Subjects, and More
Staff Mark Twain plaque thief arrested; “poet voice”; lack of grandparents in modern fiction; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day Poets & Writers...
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 ArticleTracy K. Smith
"My interest in science fiction was really based in what now seems like a very kitschy futuristic aesthetic—an image of the future from about forty years ago." Poet Tracy K. Smith discusses how she...
View ArticleClaudia Rankine on Amiri Baraka, Jon Stewart and Book Promotion, and More
Staff Ben Stiller to adapt Gary Shteyngart novel; author love letters; indie bookseller resurgence; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day Poets &...
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Reif Larsen
reif_larsen_110.jpgWriter Photo Credit: Scott Deans “I find that I generate new material via a two-step process. In the morning, I will sit my butt in the chair as close to 9:00 AM as possible. I’ve...
View ArticleTimes Critic David Carr Has Died, PEN World Voices Festival, and More
Staff James Franco in another novel adaptation; Clancy Martin on love; labeling writers; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day Poets & Writers...
View ArticleWe Are Pirates
Book critic Ron Charles provides a humorous plot summary of Daniel Handler's new novel, We Are Pirates (Bloomsbury USA, 2015). You can read Charles's full review of the book in the Washington Post."We...
View ArticleDeadline Approaches for Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest
Submissions are currently open for the 2015 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest, given annually for a short story by a writer who has not yet published a book of fiction. The winner will receive a...
View ArticleSage Advice
I found every panel wonderful, filled with sage advice and friendly, inclusive direction. Attribution: San Francisco: Inspiration audience member
View ArticleVariety and Diversity
I loved the range of writers and their voices, the range of community networkers and literary supports, the community in all its variety and diversity. Attribution: San Francisco: Inspiration audience...
View ArticlePhilip Levine
"We stand in the rain in a long line waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work." The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, who died this weekend at the age of 87, speaks with PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown in a...
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