Today at 3 pm EST, Toni Morrison will be digitally signing copies of her recent novel Home, in celebration of Black History Month. The entire event will be streamed live on Google+.
The Future Is Now
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After sixteen years of work, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, "the world’s only celebrity translation team," have finally finished translating all of Tolstoy, ending with last fall's Hadji Murat. Humanities interviews them, and back in 2009, so did we.
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Roaches are Red, Violets are Blue
Looking for a last minute Valentine's gift? Well, in the words of The Bronx Zoo, "How better to express your appreciation for that special someone than to name one of the Bronx Zoo's 58,000 Madagascar hissing cockroaches after them?"
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Tuesday New Release Day: Abbott, Powell, Stedman, Wagner
Megan Abbott's Dare Me is out today. Learn more about her in an essay we published a year ago. Also out are You & Me by Padgett Powell, ML Stedman's debut novel The Light Between the Oceans, and Dead Stars by L.A. great Bruce Wagner.
Sainthood Etc.
Need something to complement our profile of Jami Attenberg’s Saint Mazie today? Then try this on for size: Year in Reading alum Emily Gould conducts an interview with the author at The Rumpus. Among other things, they talk about historical fiction, writing quickly and doing research on the Lower East Side.
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The Bard of Florida
After passing through the House, a new bill establishing a four-year term limit for the state’s Poet Laureates is set to reach the Florida governor’s desk in the near future. The Sunshine State has been without a Poet Laureate since Edmund Skellings died in 2012.
In the Future, We Are All Authors
Seed forecasts an age of universal authorship (though its definitions of "consumer" and "creator" beg for reconsideration). (via)
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