The Written Image: David Sedaris Diaries
Published this month by Little, Brown, David Sedaris Diaries: A Visual Compendium features images and artwork from the best-selling author’s 153 diaries, which he composed over the past forty years.
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Genre: Creative Nonfiction
John Green on Writing About Mental Illness, Diversity in Publishing, and More
Nnedi Okorafor’s fantasy novels reinvent the genre; how One Story ended up publishing Tom Hanks; 2017 ALTA award winners announced; and other news.
The Sewanee Review at 125
The country’s longest-running literary quarterly publishes its 500th issue with a new design, a new editor, and a new submissions platform, but the same old commitment to literary excellence.
Leonard Cohen’s Last Book, Response to Ishiguro’s Nobel Win, and More
Playboy’s literary editor shares her experiences; Image to publish Flannery O’Connor’s college journal; writers on their favorite cultural experience of 2017; and other news.
Kazuo Ishiguro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature, the Power of Translation, and More
Parneshia Jones named board president of Cave Canem; William Logan accuses Jill Bialosky of plagiarism; Stephanie Danler’s Sweetbitter to be adapted for TV; and other news.
Ending With an Opening
“Something about series finales, it’s about ending, but ending with an opening,” says Durga Chew-Bose, author of Too Much and Not the Mood (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017), in an interview with the Creative Independent about her habit of watching the series finale of a television show before sitting down to write. Revisit a personal essay you wrote in the past that ends with a solid sense of closure. Then, try out Chew-Bose’s technique and watch the series finale of a popular television show before settling down to write a new ending for your essay, one that hints at a new beginning.
A Book About Delusional Thinking, a Song About Breathtaking Conviction
Novelist and singer-songwriter Ben Arthur finds inspiration in Puritan settler Anne Hutchinson, a character in Kurt Anderson’s book Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History.
National Book Award Finalists, Ocean Vuong’s Story, and More
The sophistication of Frank Bidart; Rupi Kaur’s second poetry collection, The Sun and Her Flowers; The Exorcist author’s house for sale; and other news.
The Life of a Dictionary Writer
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“People think of English as this monolithic thing but it’s really not, it’s much more like a river.” Kory Stamper, associate editor at Merriam-Webster and the author of Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Pantheon, 2017), explains what it’s like to define English words and why there are those dots in the middle of words in the dictionary.
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Books on the Meaning of Mass Shootings, Dan Brown’s House, and More
Top contenders for the Nobel Prize in Literature; winners of the Dayton Literary Peace Prizes; writers organize Hurricane Maria relief; and other news.
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