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Alex Norcia
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Reading Is Insane
In his column for Vice, Blake Butler explains the “three, short savage books you have to read.”
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Books for All!
For the San Francisco Chronicle, Jim Kuhnhenn reports about President’s Obama’s new initiative to provide low-income students with e-books.
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The Novel’s Lack of “Tension”
In the Washington Post, Hillary Kelly argues in favor of bringing back the serialized novel.
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Bar Reading
At The Millions, Edward Mullany regimentally tries to read War and Peace. Instead, he has a conversation with a stranger at a bar.
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The Reluctant Environmentalists
In an adapted excerpt from his book, All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the American West, over at Salon, David Gessner explains how Wallace Stegner and Edward Abbey “can serve as guides” for the drought-suffering American West.
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What’s Left of the American Dream?
When it comes to literature, “has the American dream run out of road?” For the Guardian’s blog, Christopher Bollen ponders the question.
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Do We Need a Poet Laureate?
For Literary Hub, Nick Ripatrazone breaks down—and defends—the poet laureate.
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The Millennial Generation’s Writer
In The New Republic, Anna Weiner discusses Renata Adler’s new boost in popularity among New York City’s young creative class: In the post-9/11 generation—a cohort caught between the promise of an economy that values creative work and the scarring, post-crash…
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Why Writers Love to Hate the MFA
Haven’t gotten enough of the MFA debate? Here’s Cecilia Capuzzi Simon in the New York Times.
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BuzzFeed’s Literary Future
BuzzFeed has announced an “Emerging Writers Fellowship,” to be headed-up by its new Literary Editor, Saeed Jones. Get the details in Jones’s interview with Electric Literature.
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Proust’s Imperfections
For the New Yorker’s “Page Turner,” Adam Gopnik argues “why an imperfect version of Proust is a classic in English.”
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Can Writing Be Taught?
Electric Literature and Catapult.co recently announced a new series of writing workshops and classes: Our goal is to connect emerging and unpublished writers with some of the most dynamic and interesting literary writers in NYC, and create the kind of…