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The Revolution: Report From Literary Egypt
March/April 2013 Stephen Morison Jr. Contributing editor Stephen Morison Jr. reports on the literary community in Cairo, Egypt, interviewing authors, publishers, and booksellers about the ongoing...
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March/April 2013 Charlene Oldham Charlene Oldham, a freelance writer and professor of journalism and business communications, offers advice to writers about how to use Pinterest to connect with and...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About It
Dialogue, when it’s working well, moves the story forward and more fully develops your characters. Keeping this in mind, write a scene for a story that is only dialogue between two characters. Let what...
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View ArticleSusan Sontag Translation Prize Open for Submissions
The 2013 Susan Sontag Prize for Translation will award a grant of $5,000 for a proposed work of literary translation from French into English by a translator under the age of thirty. The deadline for...
View ArticleF. Scott Fitzgerald's Seven Fiction Writing Tips, Amazon Kindle App Warning,...
Evan Smith Rakoff Amazon warns Apple handheld users there's a bug in the current update of its e-reader app; Open Culture features F. Scott Fitzgerald's tips for writing fiction; Paris Review Daily...
View ArticleKristopher Jansma
The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, Kristopher Jansma's debut novel, forthcoming in March from Viking, takes readers around the world—to the rocky edge of the Grand Canyon, the posh hotels of Dubai,...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble Nook Revenues Down 26 Percent, Curtis Brown Merger, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Barnes & Noble reported its Nook revenues are down 26 percent; literary agencies Curtis Brown and Conville & Walsh have merged; Edan Lepucki gathered the thoughts on first...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble Nook Revenues Down 26 Percent, Curtis Brown Merger, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Barnes & Noble reported its Nook revenues are down 26 percent; literary agencies Curtis Brown and Conville & Walsh have merged; Edan Lepucki gathered the thoughts on first...
View ArticleThe Revolution: Report From Literary Egypt
For his article "The Revolution: Report From Literary Egypt," contributing editor Stephen Morison Jr, who lives in Madaba-Manja, Jordan, traveled to Cairo twice—first in late August 2012 and again in...
View ArticlePage One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
March/April 2013 Staff 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...
View ArticleDigital Digest: Indie Retailers and the Amazon Effect
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View ArticleParents & Writers
March/April 2013 Carrie Neill This spring the San Francisco-based nonprofit Sustainable Arts Foundation launches its residency grant program, which offers support to writers and artists residencies...
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The Revolution: Report From Literary Egypt
March/April 2013 Stephen Morison Jr. Contributing editor Stephen Morison Jr. reports on the literary community in Cairo, Egypt, interviewing authors, publishers, and booksellers about the ongoing...
View ArticleNetwork: How to Use Pinterest to Connect With Readers
March/April 2013 Charlene Oldham Charlene Oldham, a freelance writer and professor of journalism and business communications, offers advice to writers about how to use Pinterest to connect with and...
View ArticleRay Bradbury
For your weekend viewing pleasure we present this 1963 documentary Ray Bradbury: Story of a Writer, produced and directed by Terry Sanders, in which the late science fiction author (who was forty-three...
View ArticleD.A. Powell, Ben Fountain Win National Book Critics Circle Awards
Last night, during a ceremony at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium in New York City, the National Book Critics Circle announced the recipients of its book awards for publishing year 2012. read more
View ArticleAmazon in New York City, Bukowski Drawings Discovered, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Amazon is reportedly looking to rent half-a-million square feet of office space in New York City; nineteen Charles Bukowski drawings were rediscovered at a book fair; Jillian Goodman...
View ArticleThe Spark of Life
"Man is a mass of electrified clay!" Percy Shelley wrote a couple hundred years ago. Frances Ashcroft and Denis Noble, professors at the University of Oxford, discuss the science of how ions transmit...
View ArticleRW EAST Center for Independence of the Disabled
I conducted writing workshops for participants at the Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York City. The folks that took the workshops reported that they enjoyed both writing and hearing...
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