Don DeLillo spoke in Chicago last week, after receiving the Carl Sandburg Literary Award. Adam Daniels, our intrepid #LitBeat correspondent, reports.
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The Faces of War
Photographer Lalage Snow photographed Scottish soldiers before, during, and after their deployments to Afghanistan. The photographs show "the toll that fighting ... takes on our troops."
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Punch Back with Books
"If you have a story to tell the world, please consider improving your craft and seriously pursuing publication. Your voice matters; add it to the narrative." A list of "bookish ways to fight the good fight" from BookRiot.
Do They Accept Curiosities?
Experimental literary magazine theNewerYork wants to "screw with your head." They also want you to submit "short but challenging pieces" for publication.
Community of Conlangers
David J. Peterson is the man responsible for creating the Dothraki and Valyrian languages for the television adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series. Peterson, who took Martin’s 55 Dothraki names and created a 4,000 word vocabulary, is interviewed over at Flavorwire. If the Dothraki don't have a word for it, the Germans probably do. Here’s an essay from The Millions on just that.
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“Ish” Writes to Granta
From Granta, we learn that Kazuo Ishiguro likes to go by “Ish.”
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Emma Straub is not an orphan.
Flatmancrooked knows that writers need money, and commercials.
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