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Record Your Stories Anywhere With Broadcastr
Andy Hunter and Scott Lindenbaum, the guys behind Electric Literature, a site well-loved by this site, are launching an app, Broadcastr, that will allow users to record stories ... ...read more
Kirsten Dunst Stars in Adaptation of Murakami’s “The Second Bakery Attack”
Mexican writer/director Carlos Cuarón (Y tu mamá también, Rudo Y Cursi) has adapted Haruki Murakami’s “The Second Bakery Attack” into a short film starring Bri... ...read moreMid-list Authors Find Homes At Indie Presses After Being Shut Out From “The Big Six”
As major commercial publishing houses (the “big six”) continue to ditch their midlist writers, some of these writers, many of whom have sold a lot of books and have mainstream(i... ...read morePatti Smith Wins National Book Award For “Just Kids”
Awesome. You can watch most of the ceremony, including Smith’s tearful and poetic acceptance speech, here. ...read moreTavi And Jane Pratt Are Launching A Magazine For “Wallflowerly Teenage Girls”
Style Rookie Tavi Gevinson, the thirteen-year-old actual style expert who goes to fashion shows and wear designer clothes and has a cool blog and is funny and seems normal—but i... ...read moreHow to Make People Who Can’t Read Advertise Your Literary Tastes
So apparently the holiday season is here (<a href="So apparently the holiday season is here (come on), which means it’s time to start spending your hard-earned unemploy... ...read moreAnd This Is Why Digital Books Are Good
Michael Connelly’s latest book, The Reversal, comes out Tuesday, and in addition to regular paper ($27) and digital editions ($14.99), publisher Little, Brown is offering ... ...read moreLit Mags May Be Small, But They’re Not Boring – The Virginia Quarterly Review Expose
Emily Bazelon writes about cyberbulling (among other things) for Slate, and her pieces generally cover obvious and important events such as Phoebe Prince’s suicide and its... ...read moreScribner and Chuck Klosterman Experiment With E-books and E-essays
Fans of Chuck Klosterman have something to be excited about – Scribner has started selling Klosterman’s essays, including ones that have not been anthologized, for t... ...read moreJane Yolen Just Published Her 300th Book. 300th. Really.
And she has “about thirty completed books and proposals out at publishing houses right now.” She expects “to finish another one or two by the end of September... ...read moreFollow Us
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