The NEA Launches the Big Read in Egypt
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced today the launch of the Big Read Egypt/U.S., the second international component of the organization's community-based literary program.
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The Rising Fortunes of the Chinese Expat Scene
Beijing, despite its cheap food and beer—two dollars worth of Chinese yuan will buy you a nice Chinese meal or a twelve-pack of Tsingtao beer—has yet to become the Paris of the 21st century, but an expat fiction scene is beginning to emerge.
McSweeney's Books Signs U.K. Distribution Deal
McSweeney's Books, the imprint of Dave Eggers's ten-year-old literary magazine McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, recently signed a distribution deal with Atlantic Books in London, the Bookseller reported yesterday. Under the new deal, which was brokered by agents Scott Moyers in New York City and Sarah Chalfont in London, Atlantic Books will distribute six McSweeney's titles per year in the U.K. and the Commonwealth. The first title is Lemony Snicket's The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story.
Raw Inspiration: Postcard From Shanghai
The first time my then-fiancée mentioned Shanghai, China, and our future in the same sentence, we were canoodling in our favorite pizza place in Massachusetts. I, wildly in love, responded to the possibility with nothing more than a slight pause. “Move to China?” I asked. “Sure, why not!”
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Ken Chen Named Executive Director of Asian American Writers' Workshop
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop announced today the appointment of
Ken Chen to the post of executive director of the organization. His
predecessor, Quang Bao, stepped down in January.
Writing Workshop Documentary to Air on PBS
A half-hour documentary on a local writing workshop that began in
southern New Hampshire in 1974 is being aired on public television
stations across the country during National Poetry Month. Mondays at Skimmilk: 30 Years of Writers at Work,
directed by Ken Browne, originally aired last April on New Hampshire
Public Television, but has since been picked up by American Public
Television and is being presented on nearly fifty PBS stations in more
than two dozen states.
An Interview With Writer and Editor Ander Monson
Ander Monson’s fourth book, the poetry collection Our Aperture, was published in January by New Michigan Press. It’s a short thirty pages, but it further extends the reach of the author’s genre-bending work. Poets & Writers Magazine recently asked Monson about his predilection for playing with genre.
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Poetry and Conflict: Postcard From St. Andrews, Scotland
Five years ago, as poets and readers attended the annual StAnza poetry festival, the war began in Iraq. This year’s festival, held from March 12 to March 16, acknowledged that anniversary explicitly with its two themes, “Poetry & Conflict” and “Sea of Tongues.”
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