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Intergenerational Reading
intergenerational2.jpg Christopher Smith Henrietta Edwards reads at the eleventh annual Intergenerational Reading at Barnes & Noble near Union Square in New York City on June 29, 2012.
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Intergenerational Reading
intergenerational5.jpg Christopher Smith Walter Crutchfield reads at the eleventh annual Intergenerational Reading at Barnes & Noble near Union Square in New York City on June 29, 2012.
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Evan Smith Rakoff In the Authors Guild lawsuit, a judge ruled that libraries that offered books for scanning are protected by copyright's fair use doctrine; Sarah Marian Seltzer describes the...
View ArticleChinese Author Mo Yan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Mo Yan, the Chinese author best known for his 1987 novel Red Sorghum, has received the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature.read more
View ArticleThe Politics of Being a Chinese Literary Figure
The recent announcement that Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature has sparked conversations, like the one with Jeffrey Brown on PBS NewsHour, about what it means to be a writer...
View ArticleTwenty-One Lies Writers Tell Themselves, Jonathan Evison Sells Screen Rights,...
Evan Smith Rakoff A technology company intends to create a Spotify-like service for books; David Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants has purchased film rights to Jonathan Evison's The...
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“The P&W grant was pivotal in providing a floor of support that made my journey up to Mt. Shasta from the San Francisco Bay Area economically viable. As a result, my performances established me as...
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Intergenerational Reading
intergenerational2.jpg Christopher Smith Henrietta Edwards reads at the eleventh annual Intergenerational Reading at Barnes & Noble near Union Square in New York City on June 29, 2012.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Intergenerational Reading
intergenerational5.jpg Christopher Smith Walter Crutchfield reads at the eleventh annual Intergenerational Reading at Barnes & Noble near Union Square in New York City on June 29, 2012.
View ArticleAnswer the Question
Buy yourself five postcards. Write one question on each postcard and send them to yourself every other day. When you receive the postcard, write for twenty minutes, responding to the question. Use...
View ArticleKill Your Darlings
Revision is often the hardest part of writing—and, some writers say, a craft all its own. As an exercise in this craft, revisit an essay you've written and try to both significantly cut down the length...
View ArticleThe $100,000 Dust Jacket
As explained in this clip from AbeBooks, a first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby sold for $182,000 at auction in 2009, and the reason it fetched such a high price was the...
View ArticleModeling for Seven Hundred Jane Austen Fans, Thirteen-Dollar E-Reader, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff In the Authors Guild lawsuit, a judge ruled that libraries that offered books for scanning are protected by copyright's fair use doctrine; Sarah Marian Seltzer describes the...
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