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Katie O’Brien
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The Write Life
At The Billfold, Christine Sneed gets real about the long, hard path to finding success writing books—even after being published—and why she wouldn’t have chosen a different career path regardless: I can’t imagine not being a writer. Maybe this seems…
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A Literature Divided
Over at Lit Hub, Calvin Baker laments the segregated state of American literature in the 21st century—a result, he says, of literary institutions’ conformity to the status quo: The status quo imagines itself humanist and enlightened, but is anchored by…
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(Not) Seen and Not Heard
According to research by the Global Media Monitoring Project, women comprise 24% of the people read about or heard in print, radio, and television news—a statistic that has changed very little in the last twenty years. The Women’s Media Center outlines…
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Bookstore Blues? Not So Fast
Many of us remember the glory days of Blockbuster, and its gradual fall. Many of us also question the fate of bookstores at the hands of technology. At Electric Literature, Jeremy Hawkins argues that bookstores will not suffer the same…
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Roxane Gay on Forgiveness
In a powerful New York Times op-ed, Roxane Gay explains why she does not forgive the Charleston shooter: Over the weekend, newspapers across the country shared headlines of forgiveness from the families of the nine slain. The dominant media narrative…
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Music and Letters
Over at the Atlantic, Spencer Kornhaber takes us back in time to the text-heavy rock ‘n’ roll ads of the 70s, early in the days of rock magazines—a stark contrast to the image-based music ads of today: Per the famous…
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Going Beyond To Kill A Mockingbird
High school reading lists are notoriously white and male, exposing students to only a narrow perspective on the world and making it hard for kids to relate to what they read. Many schools are taking the initiative to add more…
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How Curious You Are To Me, Bill Murray
On Monday, Bill Murray led a parade of poets across the Brooklyn Bridge in honor of Walt Whitman’s 1856 poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” at the 20th annual Poets House Brooklyn Bridge Poetry Walk. At the end of the walk, the…
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I Am the Modern Man
A new website called Poetry for Robots seeks to find out whether robots can learn human poetic language. It was inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’s theory that despite humanity’s near-infinite capacity for creating distinct metaphors, we still use the same…
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Back to the Source
The percentage of literature in translation put out by British and American publishing houses is pretty dismal. Hispabooks, a new publishing company in Madrid, wants to bring the richness of Spanish literature to a wider audience through English translations.