• Hungarian has won the 2015 Man Booker International prize for his body of work translated into English.
• The of the MFA program at City University of Hong Kong is apparently for exercising free speech.
• turns Amazon into a branch of your local library.
• Maybe it’s mostly about groceries for the time being, but any concerns the book trade. Good luck, Wal-Mart.
• A magazine only women are allowed to write for: has already exceeded its $20,000 Kickstarter goal with three weeks left in the campaign.
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• Has Shakespeare’s been revealed at last?
• Will the Author Solutions case go ? From your pixels to God’s ears.
• has died. He was a Pulitzer-winning poet, and the son of a Pulitzer-winning poet. We also lost , author of On Writing Well.
• Vanessa Place was from the AWP conference committee for perceived racial insensitivity. The perception appears to have merit, but Place is nothing if not .
• have been chosen for the 2015 Christine Eldin Memorial Fellowship.
• The Obama presidential library will be established on , where it belongs.
• Did you know? Mark Twain and Helen Keller were .
• Buenos Aires has than any other city in the world. So what’s your problem, Peoria?
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• Oh, all right. Everyone else is posting it, we might as well too: write an essay, . The more squeamish you are about the $150 submission fee, the less you may be hankering for goats.
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