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Genre: Creative Nonfiction
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Paula Deen's husband wins Hemingway Look-Alike Contest; Ta-Nehisi Coates to leave role at Atlantic; a bookstore devoted to food writing; and other news.
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Hanif Abdurraqib on writing something bigger than yourself; lunchtime poetry; Min Jin Lee on Han Kang’s fiction; and other news.
Roque Dalton Murder Case Reopened, Book Marginalia, and More
A day in the life of indie publisher Akashic Books; House of Representatives rejects amendment to cut funding from NEA and NEH; Lauren Groff of novels versus stories; and other news.
(Not) Quitting While You’re Ahead
As it turns out, human beings aren’t the only ones allowing their emotions to cloud their judgment. In a study published last week in Science, researchers reported findings that mice are as likely as people to have a hard time letting go of a task in which they have already invested time, energy, or another resource despite receiving any potential gain. Write a personal essay about a time when you were unable to let go of something, such as a relationship with a person or a comfortable living situation, even if there was no longer a way of moving forward or your energies would have been better spent elsewhere. What emotions were at play while you made the decision to stay put in stagnant circumstances? What happened when you finally let go?
Fore-Edge Paintings, Neil Gaiman’s Writing Prayer, and More
John Irving wins lifetime achievement award; longlists for National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose announced; Lin-Manuel Miranda to publish book of inspirational tweets; and other news.
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Jordy Rosenberg
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“If I understood Marx, I thought, I could understand my mother.” At Books Are Magic in Brooklyn, Jordy Rosenberg reads from his essay “The Daddy Dialectic,” which was published in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Rosenberg speaks about his debut novel, Confessions of the Fox (One World, 2018), in “The Business of Relationships” in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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Voting Opens for Alternative Nobel Prize in Literature, Overpriced Paperbacks, and More
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