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  A Revamped Poets Writers Expands Resources for Authors

  publishersweekly.com - by Tobias Carroll

  What does it mean to be a resource for a community of writers? That’s a question the leadership at Poets & Writers has asked itself since it was …

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  In Defense of Despair

  The New Yorker - Hanif Abdurraqib

  The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so. The Joke I tell that no one laughs at goes like this: I picked a pretty rough time to actually want to be alive; in retrospect, back when I wanted to die, things were not …

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  Work exposes timber floor 'stood on by Shakespeare'

  bbc.co.uk - Aimee Dexter

  A theatre where William Shakespeare is thought to have performed has had an area of historic timber floor "larger than a tennis court" exposed. The flooring, believed to have been once trodden on by the playwright and actor, was discovered at St George's Guildhall in King's Lynn, Norfolk, in 2023. A …

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  Mavis Gallant Left a Journalism Career to Tell True Stories

  thewalrus.ca - Dafna Izenberg

  M axine Crook made a few mistakes introducing Mavis Gallant in a 1976 interview for the national CBC radio show Morningside. This was, perhaps, …

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  Colombia Takes Center Stage at Cannes, led by Simón Mesa Soto’s ‘A Poet’ in Un Certain Regard

  Variety - Anna Marie de la Fuente

  Colombia has a robust presence in Cannes this year, starting with Un Certain Regard entry “A Poet” (“Un Poeta”) by Simón Mesa Soto, whose career …

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  An Undaunted Writer Who Broke an Invisible Barrier in Japan

  The New York Times - By Martin Fackler

  Saou Ichikawa is the country’s first severely disabled author to win a top literary prize. Her novel “Hunchback” is an angry cry against “ableist machismo.” When Saou Ichikawa was named the winner of the Akutagawa Prize in July 2023, one of Japan’s oldest and most prestigious literary awards, she …