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Month: March 2020
Will Arbery, Drama
Will Arbery. Photo: Victor Llorente. Will Arbery is a playwright from Texas and Wyoming. His plays include Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Playwrights Horizons), Plano…
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 26, 2020
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by our $50 Barnes and Noble giveaway! Enter here! Today’s Featured Deals $2.99Red Mars by Kim Stanley RobinsonGet…
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Aria Aber, Poetry
Aria Aber. Photo: Nadine Aber. Aria Aber was raised in Germany. Her debut book Hard Damage (University of Nebraska, 2019) won the 2018 Prairie Schooner…
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Announcing the 35th Annual Whiting Award Winners
The Whiting Foundation has announced ten new recipients of the Whiting Awards, on the occasion of the award’s 35th anniversary. The winners were announced last…
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 24, 2020
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Gallery Books. Today’s Featured Deals $2.99Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel José OlderGet This Deal $3.99Ancillary Justice by Ann…
View More Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 24, 2020Diannely Antigua, Poetry
Diannely Antigua. Photo: Savuth Thor. Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet, born and raised in Massachusetts. Her debut collection, Ugly Music (YesYes, 2019), was…
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Jia Tolentino, Nonfiction
Jia Tolentino. Photo: Elena Mudd. Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker, formerly the deputy editor at Jezebel and a contributing editor…
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Happening Right Now: The Harry Potter Alliance is Hosting A Virtual Con
Great news for Harry Potter fans who are starting to feel a little antsy cooped up in their houses: The Harry Potter Alliance is hosting a virtual con,…
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Comix Chronicling the Time of COVID-19
As COVID-19 spreads, many writers have reported an understandable brain freeze. Yes, Shakespeare probably wrote King Lear, Macbeth, and Anthony and Cleopatra under quarantine. But…
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