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James Franco is accepted to yet another graduate creative writing program; poet Dean Young gets a new heart; the Folger Shakespeare Library appoints a new director; a new James Bond book comes with a 9mm bullet; and other news.
The last typewriter factory closes its door; Penguin Group and Amazon develop new content Web sites; product placements in a self-published book; Chinese author Liao Yiwu is banned from traveling to the PEN World Voices Festival; and other news.
Pulitzer winner's advice rattles writers; Morrissey completes memoir; New York City libraries respond to online pornography; Detroit libraries face closure; and other news.
Plastic surgery to look like Shakespeare; HBO options Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Good Squad; a Spanish-language book fair in Los Angeles; book-scented perfume; and other news.
The Princeton Poetry Festival kicks off later this month; Amazon warms to e-book library lending; the inspiration for Daisy Buchanan's mansion is demolished in real life on Long Island, New York; the future of the novel, again; and other news.
Normal Mailer's apartment is for sale in Brooklyn, New York; Three Cups of Tea author Greg Mortenson faces a legal investigation in Montana; Amazon customers may face audit risk; finding the novel's way forward; and other news.
Greg Mortenson responds to the controversy; romance novellas to commemorate a royal wedding; Jennifer Egan and Kay Ryan pick up Pulitzer Prizes; and other news.
Welcome to Readings & Workshops, a new blog which will showcase the fabulous literary contributions that Readings/Workshops program participants make to their communities. Check back regularly to read highlights of events we’ve supported through our R/W grant program and dispatches from the writers and literary presenters we’ve partnered with in New York State, California, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, New Orleans, Seattle, Tucson, and Washington, D.C.
For a taste of what R/W is all about, check out this video, which documents a writing workshop at New York’s Goddard Riverside Community Center. We’ve funded this workshop since 2001, making it one of our longest-running writing workshops for seniors, and most of the participants have attended consistently for more than a decade. You’ll understand why when you watch the video.
Greg Mortenson defends his best-selling Three Cups of Tea; a Facebook promotional campaign pushes book to the top of Amazon lists; Kjell Espmark, poet and Swedish Academy member, defends the Nobel Prize for Literature; and other news.
A restaurant with books for walls; e-book sales leap 200 percent in February; all modern languages may have originated in Southern Africa according to new research; America: Now and Here brings art to the people; and other news.
