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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August 5, 2015
The Man Booker Prize Longlist
Earlier this week, the Booker Prize Foundation announced its longlist, which, for the second year, includes books from authors outside of the UK, the Commonwealth, Ireland, and Zimbabwe. Historically, it had only been open to authors from the aforementioned geographical locations. Read more...
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August 5, 2015
Textbook Prices Have Risen 1,041 Percent, Study Reveals
On top of mounting tuition, college students face increasingly more costly textbooks, NBC reported. Read more...
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July 30, 2015
New York Bookshop Sells Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Book “At Cost”
In an effort to encourage readers to buy Ta-Nehisi Coates’s recently released Between the World and Me, Astoria Bookshop in Queens has decided to sell it “at cost,” or without profit to the seller. Read more...
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July 30, 2015
Vladimir Putin Book Club Stirs Suspicions of Literary Censorship
Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, has started a book club in the same vein as Oprah and Mark Zuckerberg, which has Russian booksellers suspicious that there are strings attached. Read more...
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July 30, 2015
Copper Canyon to Publish Rediscovered Poems by Pablo Neruda
Nonprofit publisher Copper Canyon Press will publish a collection of twenty rediscovered poems by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda next April. Read more...
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July 30, 2015
Little Free Library Book Bandit On the Run
After six Little Free Libraries in Lincoln, Nebraska, were “robbed,” Melville House contributor Josh Cohen considered whether such libraries are viable operations. Read more...
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July 30, 2015
The University of Akron to Close Its University Press and Multicultural Center Due to Budget Shortfall
The University of Akron’s Board of Trustees announced on Monday, July 27, that due to the university’s $60 million deficit, it will eliminate a total of 213 employee positions. Read more...
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July 22, 2015
Some Remains in W.B. Yeats’s Grave May Not Be Yeats’s
Although W.B. Yeats’s dying wish before his death in 1939 was to be buried in County Sligo, Ireland, some of his remains may not be in Drumcliffe Cemetery as widely believed. Read more...
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July 22, 2015
Novelist E.L. Doctorow Has Died
E.L. Doctorow, writer of many widely admired and critically acclaimed novels including Ragtime and Billy Bathgate, has died due to complications from lung cancer. Read more...
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July 22, 2015
Art Installation Reimagines Wikipedia as a Set of Physical Volumes
Wikipedia “appears” as a set of 2,000+ volumes at Denny Gallery in Manhattan in the latest installation project by artist Michael Mandiberg. Read more...