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#ReadWomen2014, Part II

Yesterday, we wrote a post praising Kathryn Winograd and Cara Lopez Lee, two of our creative non-fiction authors published in the last two years as part of the #ReadWomen2014 campaign. Today, we celebrate two poets, Eleanor Swanson and Juliana Aragón Fatula, and a novelist with a just-published book called Glassmusic, Rebecca Snow. Every door in […]

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Cara Lopez Lee: Creating Our Lives as Stories

The release of Cara Lopez Lee’s memoir They Only Eat Their Husbands prompted us to ask Cara to reflect on the work: To write a memoir about a transformative experience is to discover the power of storytelling to create our sense of who we are. My memoir, They Only Eat Their Husbands: Love, Travel, and the Power […]


Tuesday morning lit roundup

Getting back to work after a long holiday weekend is tough. Here’s what we found when we were loafing off online. The University of Iowa International Writing Program is offering a free online course starting on June 28: How Writers Write Poetry. The 2013 winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize), […]

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Tuesday morning lit roundup

If you haven’t yet read John Williams’ Stoner, now’s the perfect time. It was first published in 1965, and Williams was a creative writing professor at the University of Denver. It sold only 2,000 copies and went out of print. But there’s been a slow, steady resurgence of this grim and gorgeous story of one man’s […]

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Tuesday morning lit roundup

We start off with an exploration of pain and parentheses in narrative. Those punctuation marks really do (or really should) serve a purpose. It’s the 100th anniversary of James Joyce’s The Dubliners. If there is any question about why Joyce wrote this work that has survived a lot of literary trends, they are answered with this: […]

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A favorite story from George Saunders’ Tenth of December, The Semplica Girl Diary. It starts out glib and clueless, and spirals from there. You won’t be able to stop thinking about it. There are many things to get irritated about on the internet involving the devolution of grammatical standards. Some wishes: differentiate between “whom” and […]

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Tuesday morning lit roundup

At the Atlantic Wire, Danielle Weiner-Bronner argues that David Foster Wallace predicted the advent-and the anxiety of-the selfie in Infinite Jest. And as an added bonus, here is Publisher’s Weekly’s take on Infinite Jest’s top ten characters. Richard Blanco, our poet laureate, talks about when he fell in love with words. If anyone calls you claiming […]

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Tuesday morning lit roundup

At the London Review of Books, Geoff Dyer writes about the strange and sometimes undignified process of being diagnosed with one’s first stroke. Elle magazine features 12 women authors recommending other womens’ books. Karen Russell recommends Robin Black; Ruth Ozeki recommends Karen Fower Joy’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves,” Edwidge Danticat recommends the novels of […]

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Tuesday morning lit roundup

Even if while you’re writing you use the hyphen key as an all-purpose word(s) separator, there are typographical rules of which you should be aware. An em dash isn’t an en dash isn’t a hyphen. Sharpen your own eagle-eyed usage when you’re giving final approval to that galley. Yes, book editors actually edit, in case […]

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Tuesday morning lit roundup

 You can now afford to know what all the well-learned elites from the early 1900s had access to: “The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. The […]

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