Poets & Writers – September 2019

DEPARTMENTS

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8 Editor’s Note

11 Reactions

NEWS AND TRENDS

12 W. S. Merwin’s garden of delights;

Furious Flower Poetry Center

celebrates twenty-five years in Virginia;

the future of Barnes & Noble; an

interview with Manuel Muñoz, the new

director of the MFA program at the

University of Arizona; and more.

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Read expanded versions

of M. Allen Cunningham’s

Agents & Editors interview

with Ben George, senior

editor of Little, Brown;

Shelly Oria’s conversation

with Karissa Chen, Kaitlyn

Greenidge, Lynn Melnick,

and Elissa Schappell about

writings from the #MeToo

movement; Michael

Taeckens’s Reviewers &

Critics interview with

Daniel Mendelsohn of the

New York Review of Books;

and Jessica Kashiwabara’s

Q&A with the University

of Arizona’s MFA program

director, Manuel Muñoz.

Read the first chapter

of Steve Almond’s latest

book, William Stoner and

the Battle for the Inner Life

(Ig Publishing, 2019).

Stay informed with

Daily News. We scan the

headlines—publishing

reports, literary dispatches,

academic announcements,

and more—for all the news

writers need to know.

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THE LITERARY LIFE

23 The Time Is Now

Writing prompts and exercises.

25 Manuals for Living

What our favorite novels teach us

about ourselves.

by steve almond

31 Historical Fictions

The pleasures and perils of writing

about other eras.

by christina baker kline and

lisa gornick

39 Indelible in the Hippocampus

Writings from the #MeToo movement.

by shelly oria

51 The Turn

Harnessing the generative power of no.

by benjamin percy

THE PR ACTICAL WRITER

111 How to Get Paid

Academia.

by michael bourne

121 Reviewers & Critics

Daniel Mendelsohn of the New York

Review of Books.

by michael taeckens

(^125) First
Jake Skeets’s Eyes Bottle Dark With
a Mouthful of Flowers.
by rigoberto gonzález
(^135) Grants & Awards
Over 110 upcoming deadlines, plus 5
new awards and 205 recent winners.
181 Conferences & Residencies
Retreats—from Atlanta to Tulsa.
191 Classifieds
Calls for manuscripts, job openings,
and more.
208 Writing in Houston
From Poets & Writers, Inc.