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Edwidge Danticat Wrestles With Death, in Life and in Art

Edwidge Danticat Wrestles With Death, in Life and in Art | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
“The Art of Death” chronicles the death of the author’s mother, as well as the ways other writers, from Tolstoy to Didion, have treated the end of life.
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Classic Appreciation: A Rare Sacred Novel — Novelist Tommy Orange on the Genius of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Novel, Ceremony

Classic Appreciation: A Rare Sacred Novel — Novelist Tommy Orange on the Genius of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Novel, Ceremony | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony is close to what I would call sacred in fiction. There are not many books I would put in this category. Kafka’s Blue Octavo Notebooks, Borges’s Dreamtigers, Clarice L…
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Classic Appreciation: The Tale of Genji — A Visual Journey Through the World’s First Novel

Classic Appreciation: The Tale of Genji — A Visual Journey Through the World’s First Novel | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
All images courtesy of the author. It’s 8pm on a Sunday night in Tokyo and, as usual, I clear my schedule to catch the latest episode of the historical drama Dear Radiance (Hikaru Kimie). The show …
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Not Just Covers, But Every Page: Why Writers Should Talk About Book Design Early On

Not Just Covers, But Every Page: Why Writers Should Talk About Book Design Early On | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Readers spend most of their time inside books. That’s where the action is. But when talking about a book’s design people usually focus on the covers: ooh look at that beauty or how interesting, I w…
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Is It a Betrayal to Publish Dead Writers' Books?

Is It a Betrayal to Publish Dead Writers' Books? | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Inside the ethically thorny world of posthumous publishing.
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What Oscar Wilde Thought About America

What Oscar Wilde Thought About America | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
On the evening of January 2, 1882, five men rowed out over the choppy gray waters of New York’s Upper Bay to the SS Arizona, a transatlantic steamer anchored at quarantine a quarter mile off Staten…
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Interview: Novelist Rita Bullwinkel on Playing with Fictional Time

Interview: Novelist Rita Bullwinkel on Playing with Fictional Time | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Rita Bullwinkel’s first novel, Headshot, is exhilarating to read. She experiments with form and bends time in uncanny ways. She sends us spiraling from the present, in a boxing gym in Reno, Nevada,…
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Essay-Review: On Marilynne Robinson's Reading Genesis. By Brad East

Essay-Review: On Marilynne Robinson's Reading Genesis. By Brad East | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Brad East reviews Marilynne Robinson’s “Readin
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Non-Fiction: On The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle by Anna Shectman

Non-Fiction: On The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle by Anna Shectman | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Adrienne Raphel reviews Anna Shechtman’s “The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crosswor
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History: A myth about Irish immigrants who came to the US during the potato famine gets debunked in a new book

History: A myth about Irish immigrants who came to the US during the potato famine gets debunked in a new book | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
In “Plentiful Country,” historian Tyler Anbinder uses bank records to paint a new picture of the 1.3 million people who fled to the US when famine hit Ireland.
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Essay: Percival Everett Is Messing With You — The author of many novels, including Erasure, and James, his latest, has spent his career running rings around his readers. By Gene Seymour

Essay: Percival Everett Is Messing With You — The author of many novels, including Erasure, and James, his latest, has spent his career running rings around his readers. By Gene Seymour | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
PHOTOGRAPH BY PHILIP CHEUNG FOR THE NEW REPUBLIC
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Essay-Review: In the Beginning, There Was Marilynne Robinson — Her new book, Reading Genesis, treats the Bible like a perfectly plotted historical novel. By Briallen Hopper

Essay-Review: In the Beginning, There Was Marilynne Robinson — Her new book, Reading Genesis, treats the Bible like a perfectly plotted historical novel. By Briallen Hopper | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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About the essayist: Briallen Hopper (@briallenhopper) is a professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York, and the author of Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions. She is writing a book about Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead.
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Essay: A Bloody Retelling of Huckleberry Finn — Percival Everett transforms Mark Twain’s classic. By Tyler Austin Harper

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Citing Gaza, prominent writers pull out of PEN World Voices Festival

Citing Gaza, prominent writers pull out of PEN World Voices Festival | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
In a letter, the writers criticized PEN America for inaction over the war.
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Naomi Klein, Hisham Matar, Maaza Mengiste and More Have Withdrawn From the PEN World Voices Festival

Naomi Klein, Hisham Matar, Maaza Mengiste and More Have Withdrawn From the PEN World Voices Festival | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Naomi Klein, Michelle Alexander, Hisham Matar, Isabella Hammad, Maaza Mengiste, Zaina Arafat, and Susan Muaddi Darraj are among the writers who have signed a damning open letter to PEN America in w…
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Fiction: In the novel James, author Percival Everett reenvisions Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

Fiction: In the novel James, author Percival Everett reenvisions Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Prolific writer Percival Everett often skewers different corners of American society. His latest novel James is written from the point of view of the character Jim, from Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn.
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‘An act of betrayal’: Gabriel García Márquez’s son on publishing his father’s work against his will

‘An act of betrayal’: Gabriel García Márquez’s son on publishing his father’s work against his will | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
The Colombian Nobel laureate’s children have published Until August a decade after their father’s death, despite the author’s wish that it should be destroyed
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Book bans in US schools and libraries surged to record highs in 2023

Book bans in US schools and libraries surged to record highs in 2023 | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Though the list is broad, many of the 4,240 books were targeted because they related to issues of LGBTQ+ communities or race
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Emily Raboteau and Sarah Viren on Climate Change, Birding, and Social Justice

Emily Raboteau and Sarah Viren on Climate Change, Birding, and Social Justice | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
The best essayists allow us to think more clearly but also more compassionately. Emily Raboteau is one of those essayists. Her writing on climate change over the past few years has helped me think …
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Essay: How Pseudo-Intellectualism Ruined Journalism. By William Deresiewicz

Essay: How Pseudo-Intellectualism Ruined Journalism. By William Deresiewicz | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
A dose of working-class realism can save journalism from groupthink.
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A Conversation with Tracy Fuad, poet

A Conversation with Tracy Fuad, poet | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Meg Miller interviews Tracy Fuad abou
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Essay: Vincent O. Carter at 100 - A Voyage of the Mind. By Hans J. Rindisbacher

Essay: Vincent O. Carter at 100 - A Voyage of the Mind. By Hans J. Rindisbacher | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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Essay: Reflections on historical fiction. By David Schurman Wallace

Essay: Reflections on historical fiction. By David Schurman Wallace | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
The historical novel isn’t cool. Popular? Yes. Enduring? Yes. A bit, well — for nerds? Also yes. Coolness lies in being at the right place at the right time…
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Classic Appreciation: Ronald Blythe’s 1969 book about his hometown, Akenfield, still resonates in our fast-paced times

Classic Appreciation: Ronald Blythe’s 1969 book about his hometown, Akenfield, still resonates in our fast-paced times | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
This essay is the introduction to Akenfield by Ronald Blythe. The new edition is out now from NYRB Classics.
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An Introduction to the Morgan Library & Museum

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And the Oscar for best imaginary book in a movie goes to...

And the Oscar for best imaginary book in a movie goes to... | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From the novel in Barbie’s room to the book Paul Giamatti’s character can’t write in “The Holdovers,” it was a surprisingly literary year in film.
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