The Writer’s News
The Writer’s News keeps you informed about new developments in the writing world, including award and publication announcements, news from AWP and the field, and updates about important literary figures.
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July 30, 2014
Three J.D. Salinger Stories Out of Print for 70 Years Now Available
Darrin Devault and Tom Graves of independent publisher Devault-Graves have published three stories written by a young J.D. Salinger in the 1940s. Read more...
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July 30, 2014
J.K. Rowling Appeared as Alter Ego Robert Galbraith for Recent Interview
Dressed very business-like in suit and tie, J.K. Rowling made a rare appearance at the 2014 Harrogate Crime Writing Festival as her pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Read more...
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July 30, 2014
North Carolina Poet Laureate’s Resignation Draws Attention to Importance of Laureateship
The swift resignation of North Carolina’s recently appointed poet laureate Valerie Macon this month, whose appointment caused uproar in the state’s literary community, has drawn the attention of the reading public to the purpose and importance of state poet laureates. Read more...
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July 24, 2014
Giovanni’s Room, the Country’s Oldest LGBT Bookstore, Rumored to Reopen
To the delight of brick-and-mortar bookstore supporters and print book fans everywhere, Giovanni’s Room in Philadelphia, the oldest existing LGBT bookstore in the country, is rumored to reopen this fall. Read more...
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July 24, 2014
David Mitchell Tweets Entire Story from Latest Book
On July 14, Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell began tweeting a short story located in the same fictional world as his upcoming novel, The Bone Clocks. Read more...
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July 24, 2014
An Update on the Significance of Poetry
For the last week or so, critics have been having the by-this-point perfunctory debate on the value and relevance of poetry to the general American public. Read more...
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July 24, 2014
Lost and Little-Seen T.S. Eliot Prose to be Published
Ronald Schuchard, an English professor at Emory University, is compiling a new collection of T.S. Eliot’s prose, to be co-published by Johns Hopkins University Press and Faber and Faber, and released on a volume-by-volume basis. Read more...
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July 21, 2014
Interactive Fiction Sees Resurgence on New Devices
Videogame critic Chris Suellentrop wrote in The New York Times that “text games,” or interactive fiction (think Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books), are seeing a resurgence across various platforms since its inception in the 1980s. Read more...
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July 21, 2014
London’s Poetry Trail Promotes Poetry to Children
Children are finding (or hunting) snippets of poetry purposefully stashed around Granary Square in King’s Cross, an area of Central London known for its Eurostar rail service at St. Pancras International, by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE). Read more...
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July 21, 2014
Junot Diaz Credits His Literary Success to Dungeons & Dragons
In a New York Times article published last week, writer Junot Diaz said that the now forty-year-old role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), enabled him and a generation of writers to jumpstart their creative lives. Read more...