Literary Hub

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In this video in support of the Festival Neue Literatur, which celebrates contemporary German-language and American fiction (this year’s theme: Queer as Volk) and begins today in New York, Eileen Myles talks about the importance of translators and FN

Literary Hub

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On March 10th, 1971, Lou Reed read at the At the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery and announced to the audience that he would no longer play music; he was now a poet. He performed the following poem that night. This is because I alw

The Millions

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This year I read too many wonderful books to name all of them here, but some highlights were: Katie Kitamura’s intoxicating A Separation, which is such a wild and yet disciplined exploration of the idea of the traveler and of grief. Anuk Arudpragasam

Entertainment Weekly

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BY Xhenet Aliu | PAGES 290 | GENRE Novel IN WATERBURY, CONN., DINER waitresses refill coffee cups for customers trapped in the shadows of abandoned brass factories that loom across the street. They fall in love with men who promise the world befor

India Today

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The author of five novels, Kochi based Anees Salim has won critical acclaim for his subtle, literary approach to tragedy. He spoke with India Today about the vision he brings to the page. Q. Who do you like to read? A. My favourite authors continue t

The Millions

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David Miller’s That Glimpse of Truth was a constant companion this year. It is a collection of 100 stories that Miller believes are amongst the finest ever written. While there are a number of writers whose work I wish Miller had included, each story

TIME

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In Confessions of the Fox, Jordy Rosenberg’s buzzy first novel, historian Dr. Voth discovers a suspicious manuscript that upends centuries-old assumptions about notorious jail breaker Jack Sheppard. The document reveals that 18th century street prowl

Edge

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Developer Omega Force, Square Enix Publisher Square Enix Format PC, PS4, Switch Release 2018 To play Dragon Quest Builders 2 is to finally understand what it means to be rewarded for all your hard work. Sure, it has XP bars and quest-completion track

The Atlantic

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Dorthe Nors’s newest novel, about a 40-something woman in Copenhagen learning to drive for the first time, is more profound than its premise suggests.

The Millions

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In the past year I have read several books related to my writing project, most of them connected with old documents and newspapers, as well as some classical works, many short stories and foreign novels translated into Arabic. On the Iraqi front, per

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Alexander Chee’s new book, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, is available now from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. What was the first book you fell in love with? The Tombs of Atuan, by Ursula K. LeGuin. This novel left such a mark on the inside of m

The Paris Review

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From the cover of issue no. 136 (Fall 1995) of The Paris Review. It has been said, erroneously, that poets are cat people, novelists dog people. In fact, lots of novelists are into cats. Hilary Mantel included a photo of her cat in her Art of Fiction

TIME

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LISA HALLIDAY’S DEBUT novel, Asymmetry, begins with a lopsided affair—a perfect vehicle for a story of inexperience and advantage. This romance is between Alice, a young woman in publishing, and Ezra Blazer, a literary éminence grise, who resembles a

Poets & Writers

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The name Holy Cow! Press (holycowpress.org), complete with exclamation point, came to publisher Jim Perlman in a dream. Forty years ago that dream became an independent press, which today boasts a catalogue of more than 125 poetry collections, novels

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American writer Christopher Bollen received the, uh, honor, which was announced on Thursday. His novel The Destroyers featured a memorable pair of less-than-appealing analogies.

Poets & Writers

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POETS & WRITERS MAGAZINE ANNOUNCES state, national, and international prizes in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. We list only prizes of $1,000 or more, prizes of less than $1,000 that charge no entry fee, and prestigious nonmonetary awards.

Literary Hub

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Mamta Chaudhry arrived at the University of Florida to begin her master’s degree program as a broadcast journalism student. “To people in Florida, Calcutta seemed so exotic, but to me Gainesville was so exotic.” Chaudhry shares her journey from her l

Entertainment Weekly

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With her bracingly original take on a classic Greek myth, Daisy Johnson not only reinvents a story—but also the whole notion of storytelling itself.

Literary Hub

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In the 30 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 15 announcement of the 2017 National Book Critics Circle award winners, NBCC members review the thirty finalists. Today, NBCC board member Tom Beer offers an appreciation of fiction finalist J

Entertainment Weekly

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BY Louise Erdrich PAGES 267 GENRE Sci-Fi IF REAL LIFE SEEMS TO BE tipping further toward dystopia lately, it makes sense that art would follow—even for a novelist as earthbound and richly humanist as Louise Erdrich. Though her latest actually foun

TIME

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JOHN LANCHESTER’S LAST NOVEL, Capital, published in 2012, was a Dickensian tour of London in the era of global capital—but before crises of xenophobia and worsening climate change came crashing down. The British journalist and novelist’s latest, The

The Atlantic

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Highlights from 12 months of interviews with writers about their craft and the authors they love

The Millions

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The Aspen Words Literary Prize was awarded yesterday to Tayari Jones for An American Marriage, at a ceremony in New York City. The prize, which operates out of the Aspen Institute, awards $35,000 annually to “an influential work of fiction that illum

3D World

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“It’s about understanding the creative decisions [from the Original Trilogy] that make the shots look the way they look,” Hickel explains, in terms of how The Mandalorian refers to the shot-design heritage of Star Wars. He goes on to explain that a g

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The two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning author turns his attention to the settling of the Northwest Territory in the late 18th century. McCullough focuses on the story of five pioneers, drawing upon their journals and letters to create a thrilling portray

The Australian Women's Weekly

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Leah Swann, 49, was born in Melbourne where she remembers a childhood “full of daydreaming, playing outside, storytelling, drawing and reading”. She was always filling notebooks with stories and says over time “it dawned on me I was a writer”. A volu

Literary Hub

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Writing this column allows me to indulge my passion for fiction—but it also allows me, more specifically, to indulge my passion for fiction in translation. Bear with me for a moment. I know we all have lots of things begging for our time, and while,

Filmfare

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Veeru Devgan’s life reads like one of those ’70s masala films, in which he made his mark as an action director. It’s said four of his friends and he ran away from home in Amritsar and travelled ticketless to Mumbai to make it as ‘heroes’. The year wa

The Millions

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Benjamin Dreyer graduates to our Hall of Fame, making room for new Colson Whitehead, while Sally Rooney pulls off the extremely rare double listing. The post The Millions Top Ten: July 2019 appeared first on The Millions.

TIME

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The narrator of Courtney Maum’s third novel, Costalegre, is desperate for her mother’s attention. It’s 1937, and 15-year-old Lara Calaway is moping around the southwestern coast of Mexico. Her mother Leonora, a wealthy modern-art collector, has invit