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In this regular feature, we offer a few suggestions for podcasts, smartphone apps, Web tools, newsletters, museum shows, and gallery openings: a medley of literary curiosities that you might enjoy.
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Network: How to Use Twitter to Connect With Readers
Public relations consultant Lauren Cerand offers tips for how to use Twitter to promote yourself and your writing, engage with your readers, and stay current on the publishing and literary scenes.
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Musicians Steve Earle and Josh Ritter Release Debut Novels
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Dial Press recently released the debut novels of crossover artists Steve Earle and Josh Ritter, musicians who, despite busy tour schedules, managed to carve out time to put their passions into print as well as into songs.
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The Written Image: Maira Kalman
In this issue we offer a look at Young Nabokov, a gouache by Maira Kalman, whose work will be on display in the exhibition Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World) at the Jewish Museum in New York City until July 31.
Literary MagNet
Literary MagNet chronicles the start-ups and closures, successes and failures, anniversaries and accolades, changes of editorship and special issues—in short, the news and trends—of literary magazines in America. This issue’s MagNet features the jubilat, the Yale Review, River Styx, Kugelmass, the Drum, and Knee-Jerk.
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Amélie Director to Adapt T. S. Spivet, Madoff Does Time Reading Michener, and More
Amélie director takes rights for T. S. Spivet adaptation; Kafka's The Metamorphosis gets gory; Madoff takes on Michener in prison; New York City libraries avoid budget cuts; and other news.
Amazon's Controversial Blurbing Process, Shakespeare the Stoner, and More
Amazon Publishing promises to promote authors who blurb their new titles; an anthropologist wants to exhume Shakespeare's bones to test for drug use; Nick Laird reviews poetry apps; and other news.
Writer Threatens Kidnapping as a Promo Stunt, the Final Hours of Lorca, and More
A Virginia writer treatens kidnapping as part of a promotional stunt; the final hours of the celebrated writer Federico García Lorca; Monica Ali reimagines Princess Diana; and other news.
FBI Investigates Borders Bombs, Philip Roth on Not Reading Fiction, and More
FBI looks into explosives planted at Borders store; Philip Roth gives up fiction; author Esther Broner remembered; U.K. Poetry Society shaken up after budget increase; and other news.
The Diets of Poets, Six Egyptian Writers You Should Know, and More
The Guardian examines the gay and lesbian literary canon; the diets of poets; Broke-Ass Stuart has a TV show; and other news.
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