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LaToya Jordan
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Notable New York, This Week 1/31-2/06
This week in New York lots of literary events to make you forget that you’re not going to be at AWP: authors Maxine Hong Kingston and Leslie Marmon Silko introduced by Toni Morrison at the 92nd Street Y, Bomb Magazine…
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Notable New York, This Week 1/24-1/30
This week in New York Reginald Dwayne Betts at louderARTS, the Saul Bellow Slam, Edwidge Danticat on Haiti Noir with actors Anika Noni Rose and Stephen Lang at Symphony Space, Literary Death Match is giving away Shya Scanlon’s Forecast, musicians…
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Saddest Books in the World
GalleyCat is asking readers to name the saddest books in the world. The saddest books I’ve read are so far are Bridge to Terabithia, Fall on Your Knees, The Lovely Bones, and A Thousand Splendid Suns. I’ve read more, but…
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Junot Diaz on the Pulitzer
“If Pulitzer prize-winner and Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz is to be believed, winning the award in 2008 for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, meant little more than a short-lived applause. ‘In America, people don’t like to read. But…
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Notable New York, This Week 1/17-1/23
This week in New York City, Walter Mosley remembers Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Chris Cleave reads from Little Bee, editors talk about the future of newspaper and magazine book sections, a special benefit for poet Dean Young in need…
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The Man Behind StoryCorps
About 60,000 people have interviewed family members, partners, and friends to record oral histories with StoryCorps. I’m one of those people. In 2009 I interviewed my husband, asking him questions about how we met, his favorite memory of me, and…
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Another Way to Save Libraries
When the residents of the small British town Stony Stratford heard that the town council voted to close the library due to budget cuts, they decided to do something drastic, clear the shelves. The library held about 16,000 books, but…
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Notable New York, This Week 1/10-1/16
This Week in New York the Rumpus Women take Brooklyn; storytelling from Sex Workers Literati, the Moth, and Sideshow Goshko; inspired words from Patricia Smith and Willie Perdomo; Douglass Rushkoff and Steven Berlin Johnson talk tech and innovation; and Nerd…
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GChat, the Modern Diary
I do some of my best writing in GChat. It’s my most used method of communicating. I have a smartphone so I can GChat from it, making phone calls is secondary. I tell funny stories on GChat, play therapist, vent,…
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What Happens to Your Online Presence After Your Death?
“This has inspired a variety of entrepreneurs to place bets that, eventually, people will want control over the afterlife of their digital selves. Several promise to manage the details of your digital death — storing your passwords and your wishes…
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Recycle Your Books!
“Most paper recyclers can’t process the glue that binds books along the spine. Some people donate them, of course, or try to resell them, but so many books wind up in boxes on the curb, and eventually, in landfills…Thrift Recycling…
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Can Creative Writing Help Students Become More Successful?
Mother Jones is doing an ongoing education reporting series from Mission High School in San Francisco. This week’s article asks, “Does Creative Writing Help Kids Succeed?” Tough question to answer. I think creative writing can help kids, but like the…