• The 2015 Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced. All the Light We Cannot See won in the fiction category. Apparently dissatisfied with the first three nominees, the board . A complete list of winners is . In the Pulitzer’s shadow, the also announced their annual awards.
• Buy a box of Cheerios, get a .
• An between John Irving and J.P. Donleavy, reproduced from the Spring 1988 Paris Review. Fun.
• The first dedicated to self-published authors opens in Florida. Let’s hope they sell coffee too; they’ll need the revenue.
• Three pages that were from A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle. Get the background .
• Time Magazine’s list of the world’s includes two writers. Two.
• We’ve been sharing slam poetry here and there on social media, always arguing, “This is why poetry is still—and eternally—relevant.” The takes our breath away.
• 18 of the United States. Now we’re talking! (say one of us, a former cartographer).
• The number of is increasing, as is the average entry fee, yet the total prize money is decreasing. Hmm.
• , another quietly rich, mild-mannered, self-published author.
• Don’t despair: if “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner could do it, . (Well, maybe not, but at least you know you’re not alone.)
• Finally, yes, at six weeks, debut writer, you are in a mudpit of despair.
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