Four Lunches and a Breakfast: What I Learned About the Book Business While Breaking Bread With Five Hungry Agents
An in-depth look at book publishing as seen through the eyes of five literary agents.
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My Life in Books: A Meditation on the Writer’s Library
The author reflects on his growing collection of books and what it shows about his life as a reader and writer.
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Min Jin Lee on Learning to Write, the Rebellion of Amelia Bedelia, and More
Reimagining the publishing world as a fantasy baseball league; the 2019 ASLE awards for environmental writing; widening the Booker Prize competition; and other news.
Elizabeth Gilbert on Female Desire, James Daunt to Lead Barnes & Noble, and More
Copyright dispute over Penguin Classics edition of John Okada’s No-No Boy; Kristen Arnett on not writing a coming out story; five commentators on whether Shakespeare was a woman; and other news.
Vita & Virginia
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Vita & Virginia is a film adaptation of Eileen Atkins’s 1992 play of the same name, based on love letters Virginia Woolf exchanged over the course of a decade-long affair with Vita Sackville-West, the inspiration behind Woolf’s 1928 novel, Orlando: A Biography. Directed by Chanya Button, the biopic stars Gemma Arterton as West, Elizabeth Debicki as Woolf, and Isabella Rossellini as Baroness Sackville.
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A Fond Farewell to Tin House, Tayari Jones Wins Women’s Fiction Prize, and More
Griffin Poetry Prize winners announced; private equity firm to purchase Barnes & Noble; writers and editors bid farewell to Tin House; and other news.
Firecracker Award Winners, Ocean Vuong on the Scale of Novels, and More
Asian American Writers’ Workshop announces interim executive director; backlash against prosecutor-turned-novelist Linda Fairstein; Haruki Murakami on rearranging the literary vocabulary; and other news.
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “Immortal Moment,” Writing the Novels of Star Wars, and More
Ridiculously long subtitles; an imperiled publishing industry in Hong Kong; Sue Berger Ramin joins Brandeis University Press as inaugural director; and other news.
Futurepoem Contest Open for Submissions
Submissions are currently open for The Other Futures Award, given by Futurepoem for a book-length work of poetry, prose, or multi-genre writing. The editors of Futurepoem launched the award this year to recognize “innovative, adventurous work that challenges conventions of genre and language, content and form.” The winner will receive $1,000 and will be published by Futurepoem in 2021.
Using the online submission system, submit a manuscript of any length—the suggested length is 50 to 100 pages—with a $28 entry fee by June 15. Dan Machlin, Carly Dashiell, Ariel Yelen, and Aiden Garabed Farrell—Futurepoem’s permanent editors and staff—will judge. The winning entry will be announced by September 15. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
“The Other Futures Award focuses on innovative, experimental poetry and cross-genre literature,” write the editors. “We are interested in considering work that imagines new literary possibilities, pushes the boundaries, and questions established paradigms.”
Founded in 2002, Futurepoem is a New York City–based publishing collaborative. It has a rotating editorial panel and is “dedicated to presenting innovative works of contemporary poetry and prose by both emerging and important underrepresented writers.” Dan Machlin is founder and executive editor. Recent releases include Jennifer Soong’s debut poetry collection, Near, At; Emmalea Russo’s debut poetry collection, G; and Aby Kaupang and Matthew Cooperman’s collaborative poetry collection NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified).
Lammy Award Winners, Writers on Summers Past, and More
Tommy Orange’s literary influences; therapy as a writing class; Esmé Weijun Wang on taking praise seriously; and other news.
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