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Samantha Hunt wins the 2019 St. Francis College Literary Prize for The Dark Dark; the new CEO of Barnes & Noble shares his business plan; book publishers reconsider professional fact-checking; and other news.
Publishers Weekly names Jennifer Baker the 2019 PW Superstar; a new home for the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library; Leslie Jamison in the latest installment of By the Book at the New York Times; and other news.
The New York Public Library declines to host an event sponsored by foundation connected to Saudi crown prince; the New York Times probes the price of the writers’ workshop; Lucy Ellmann talks Ducks, Newburyport; and other news.
The postal service releases a Walt Whitman stamp; Merriam-Webster expands definition of “they”; two poets wander an art museum; and other news.
The National Book Foundation announces the longlist for its translated literature award; Macmillan taps Amy Einhorn to lead Henry Holt; scholars identify John Milton’s copy of Shakespeare’s first folio; and other news.
The National Book Foundation announces the longlist for its young people’s literature award; Esmé Weijun Wang on perseverance; a French Canadian author slipping under the radar; and other news.
Edmund White to receive an honorary National Book Award; Monique Truong’s new novel; the threat Brexit poses to publishing; and other news.
The voluminous output and wounded pyschodrama of Patrick Lafcadio Hearn; Poetry Foundation launches video series; libraries versus Macmillan; and other news.
Why one of Australia’s most celebrated writers can’t come onshore; Mona Awad on the Gothic horror of MFA programs; the problem with remembering authors with their most famous quotes; and other news.
Susan Kamil has died; Jonathan Franzen essay on climate change sparks online ire; how a poem published in a biker magazine may solve a decades-old murder; and other news.
