Welcome back to another thrilling installment of everyone’s favorite advice column, Am I the Literary Asshole?, a place where you can have a beer along with a tasty side of literary...
The letter calls on the nonprofit organization to respond to the threat that “Israel’s genocide of Palestinians represents for the lives of writers in Palestine and to freedom of expression everywhere.”
“We demand PEN wake up from its own silent, tepid, neither-here-nor-there, self-congratulatory middle of the road and take an actual stand against an actual genocide.
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[Source: Publishing Perspectives | December 17, 2025]
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The Benefits of a Writing Retreat
In this episode of "Writer's Digest Presents," editor-in-chief Amy Jones and literary agent Jessica Berg chat about why writers should consider writing retreat.
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[Source: The New York Times | December 17, 2025]
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How Jane Austen’s Family Nurtured Her Early Literary Endeavors
________________________________ From Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen by Kate Evans.
In addition to that, Palestinian American writer Randa Jarrar was physically removed from the event where Bialik spoke. Continue reading >>
[Source: Literrary Hub | December 18, 2025]
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Writers Talking Writers: Julian Brave NoiseCat on Herman Melville and Abraham Verghese on Ernest Hemingway
The Academy Award nominee and National Humanities Medal recipient discuss the long shadows of two literary giants.
Unseen Tennessee Williams radio play published in literary magazine
The Strangers, a horror tale written during the playwright’s college days, appeared in the Strand magazine this weekAs one of the 20th century’s most successful playwrights, Tennessee Williams...
Matt Holt plans $30B buyout of New Mountain assets, new health tech platform
New Mountain Capital’s Matt Holt is leaving the firm and is in talks to buy five of its portfolio companies in a deal valued at more than $30 billion, according to people familiar with the...
Last week, an open letter addressed to PEN America was sent. Through the Portable Feminist Reader, readers explore the state of American feminism, its successes and failures, and what feminism looks like in practice, as a complex, contradictory, personal and political, and ever-growing legacy of feminist thought.
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Roxane Gay is The New York Times-bestselling author of The Bad Feminist and other books and publications, a professor, editor, and social commentator.
A New Literary Prize to Support Emerging Disabled Writers
Disability Arts pioneer and internationally acclaimed writer Kenny Fries establishes an award to elevate and amplify the work of emerging disabled and/or Deaf writers.
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[Source: The Guardian | December 24, 2025]
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Book Review: ‘Captives and Companions,’ by Justin Marozzi and ‘The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery,' by John Samuel Harpham.
In “Captives and Companions,” Justin Marozzi traces the stories of the eunuchs, harem women and forced laborers who underwrote empires in Asia and North Africa.
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Patriotism and Profit at Random House During World War II
A new biography by Gayle Feldman, Nothing Random: Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built, straddles 20th-century American cultural history.
The post Association of American Publishers... The bare minimum.”
Right before the letter was sent, two novelists — National Book Award nominee Angela Flournoy and O. Henry Prize winner Kathleen Alcott — cut ties with PEN America over the organization’s decision to give a platform to Mayim Bialik, who has opposed a ceasefire.
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[Source: The Guardian | December 25, 2025]
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James Ransone obituary
American actor known for playing Ziggy in the TV crime drama series The Wire and his many roles in modern horror filmsAnthem magazine called James Ransone “the perennial cool guy”, though it wasn’t...
Five Books About the Most Important Photographs of the Vietnam War—and the Photographers Who Took Them
In April 2023, George Black wrote in an introduction to his reading list on these pages that “something like thirty thousand books have been written about ‘the Vietnam War.’”He limited his reading...
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[Source: Publishing Perspectives | December 18, 2025]