Elena Passarello Craft Capsule: Portland 2015
Essayist Elena Passarello presents "Point Sublime: Research and Uncertainty in the Literary Essay" as part of the Craft Capsules portion of Poets & Writers Live in Portland, Oregon, on October 17, 2015
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Moby-Dick in the Internet Age, Writers Respond to Paris Attacks, and More
Shakespeare & Company bookstore served as refuge during Paris attacks; The Diary of Anne Frank gets a coauthor; literature’s relation to evolutionary theory; and other news.
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Pushcart Prize Turns Forty
The Pushcart Prize, a venerable nonprofit award series and press, released its fortieth-anniversary prize anthology this month. On the eve of its release party, Poets & Writers staff looked into the history of the prize, and what has kept "one of the last bastions of non-corporate writing" alive and well over the years.
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Lost Dylan Thomas Poem Performance, Penny Booksellers, and More
Whiting Foundation appoints new board president; HBO picks up adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Beautiful Things; President Obama and Marilynne Robinson’s conversation continued; and other news.
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Susan Howe on Wallace Stevens, Amazon Fights Fake Reviews, and More
A literary history of whales; Nobel Prize–winning author Svetlana Alexievich profiled at the New Yorker; Margaret Atwood on her new novel; and other news.
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President Obama Interviews Marilynne Robinson, Amazon Invests $10 Million in Translation Imprint, and More
Joshua Cohen writes serialized novel in real time; “speakeasy” bookstore shows signs of reopening; a visit to poet Anna Ahkmatova’s apartment; and other news.
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Growing a Literary Garden, the Art of the Sex Scene, and More
What to read in the dog days of summer; libraries on bikes; a children's book that induces hypnosis; and other news.
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Little Free Library Crackdown, Langston Hughes Production, and More
Poet Elise Partridge has died; Harper Lee novel number one at Amazon; authenticity in fiction; and other news.
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Junot Díaz Novel Named Best of 21st Century, Prison Book Ban Lifted, and More
W. H. Auden and Charlie Hebdo; Arabic Fiction Prize longlist includes more women; literary podcasts; and other news.
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Literary Resolutions, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy Made a Dame, and More
The year of the female essayist; Melville House sells out of Torture Report in one day; the history of pulp fiction; and other news.
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