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APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN!
Apply for our 2024 Writing Fellowships! $1000 stipend, publication in the magazine, 6 months of editorial support, & more. Submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry are welcome. Deadline: March 31.
Details and how to apply:
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THREAD Join Yiyun Li and A Public Space for a free virtual book club. Let's read
#TolstoyTogether
. WAR AND PEACE starts Wednesday, March 18. 1/
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APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN!
Apply for our 2023 Writing Fellowships! $1000 stipend, publication in the magazine, 6 months of editorial support, & more. Submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry are welcome. Deadline: March 31.
Details and how to apply:
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We are thrilled to announce a new Fellowship program for aspiring editors. Fellows will receive intensive training in all aspects of editing. A strong interest in literary publishing is the only prerequisite. We will be accepting applications through 1/15!
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Szymborska: “I prefer the absurdity of writing poems / to the absurdity of not writing poems” —
@ilya_poet
#APStogether
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APPLICATIONS OPEN!
Interested in a career in publishing?
Apply for the 2024 Editorial Fellowship at A Public Space—a program to support aspiring editors. Two fellows will be selected this year. Deadline: FEBRUARY 15.
Details and link to apply:
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Announcing a new series of virtual book clubs,
#APStogether
, hosted by
@GarthGreenwell
,
@elizmccracken
, Claire Messud,
@Ayana_Mathis
,
@CPhillipsPoet
,
@ilya_poet
,
@elliottholt
, Ed Park, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum,
@AimeeBender
, and others.
#TolstoyTogether
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Calling aspiring editors! Apply to the 2024 A Public Space Editorial Fellowships!
We are seeking aspiring editors who have not worked extensively in literary publishing. Deadline to apply: February 15, 11:59pm E.T.
Details and how to apply here:
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We're excited to share the cover for GOD'S CHILDREN ARE LITTLE BROKEN THINGS by
@Ary_Ifeakandu
—a collection that began 7 yrs ago, when a 19-yr-old writer from Nigeria sent a story to APS. Out in June, but it's never too soon to pre-order a beautiful book
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Dear Friends,
We’ve done it! Like the bees, we have foraged and shared, built together and supported one another. The world is far from friendly to bees and flowers, but may we go onward and upward, without fatigue, without impatience.
Gratefully yours, Yiyun
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Congratulations to our dear
#TolstoyTogether
leader, Yiyun Li, for receiving a Guggenheim fellowship this year!
As well, congratulations to our dear friend
@GarthGreenwell
for the same!
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Calling emerging writers! Apply to the A Public Space 2023 Writing Fellowships!
$1000 stipend, publication in the magazine, 6 months of editorial support, & more.
Writers who have not yet contracted to publish a book are invited to apply.
Details:
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We are thrilled to announce APS Books, a new press from A Public Space. Read our press release:
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It is November 1st, we're no longer saving our daylight, and we exist in a collective breath-holding. Still, let us believe that a moment of togetherness is better than separate efforts.
#APStogether
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Today,
#TolstoyTogether
is one month old! Thank you all for joining us so far—we're looking forward to reading the rest of War and Peace with you!
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Dear Friends, Let’s go—slowly, without rushes, without impatience, without fatigue, without weakness. With some random thoughts from me and many more from you. —YL
#TolstoyTogether
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A Public Space will publish TOLSTOY TOGETHER: 85 DAYS OF WAR AND PEACE WITH YIYUN LI this September.
To celebrate join us for an encore book club reading of Tolstoy's classic this fall!
To read a special note from Yiyun, click here:
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"Often people think poetry is just about feelings but there’s craft involved. I’m manipulating you to understand my feelings. I’m not writing in my diary."
@morganapple
via
@The_Rumpus
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On a day when a giant ship and big publishing houses are grabbing the headlines, can we remind the world and ourselves that the independent presses are doing our jobs quietly out of the limelight, not waiting for miracles?
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Call me Melville’s reader. Some time ago–after finishing my annual reading of Moby-Dick and already missing the watery world–I thought I would take on a new way of reading, copying out Moby-Dick by hand–the epitome of slow reading and savoring every word. –Yiyun Li
#APStogether
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Congratulations to
@jamelbrinkley
, who has won the Sister Mariella Gable Award, and joins a pantheon that includes Edwidge Danticat, Claudia Rankine, Binyavanga Wainaina, Tracy K. Smith, Nurruddin Farah, and Jane Kenyon, for his debut, A LUCKY MAN:
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🚨OPEN CALL🚨
ATTN: Accepting poetry submissions from writers who identify as first generation immigrants, for a portfolio to be edited by our 2021 editorial fellow, Miguel Coronado and featured in our winter issue. No fee to submit!
Guidelines here:
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Two years ago we were going into isolation, though connected by
#TolstoyTogether
. On the anniversary, March 18,
#APStogether
will read Moby-Dick with Yiyun Li, with the hope of anchoring us, once again, in great literature during an unsettling time.
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James Alan McPherson was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was among the first group of artists who received a MacArthur Fellowship.
Our next
#APStogether
is Hue and Cry, reading with Lan Samantha Chang.
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Remember our spring journey through War and Peace? Some of you have asked if
#TolstoyTogether
would be available to read in future seasons. We're delighted to announce our journey will be a book. We look forward to a reunion with many of you in this volume!
#APStogether
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"Is there a way that the vocabulary of love, as opposed to the vocabulary merely of tolerance, can come into how we talk about life as citizens?" Tracy K. Smith via
@lithub
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Writers who have not yet contracted to publish a book are invited to apply for a 2019 A Public Space Fellowship, which aims to seek out and support writers who embrace risk in their work and their own singular vision:
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“Call me Ishmael” gave birth to the first sentence of Housekeeping: “My name is Ruth.” My copy of Moby-Dick still has notes from Marilynne Robinson’s lecture. In the margin of chapter 3: “Education of Ishmael.” “Life is a work of consciousness.” –Yiyun Li
#APStogether
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Applications close on March 31 at 11:59pm ET!
APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN!
Apply for our 2024 Writing Fellowships! $1000 stipend, publication in the magazine, 6 months of editorial support, & more. Submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry are welcome. Deadline: March 31.
Details and how to apply:
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For those asking about what comes after
#TolstoyTogether
—what comes next—we have our plans, and we're looking forward to sharing Part Two with you soon.
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From us at A Public Space, we want to thank our fellow
#TolstoyTogether
readers for sticking with us, the independent bookstores for their support, and Yiyun for inviting us to read with her this spring.
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Our
#TolstoyTogether
virtual book club with Yiyun Li for War and Peace starts tomorrow, beginning with Part 1: i–iii! Yiyun will be using the Pevear & Volokhonsky translation, but any will do, and there is a free version available via
@gutenberg_org
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Congratulations to Contributing Editor,
#TolstoyTogether
Leader, and dear friend Yiyun Li for being one of the recipients of this year's Windham-Campbell prize!
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A COUPLE MORE DAYS!
Calling emerging writers to apply to the 2023 A Public Space Writing Fellowships! Accepting submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Applications close 3/31 11:59pm ET.
Details:
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James is famous for refusing to speak plainly, preferring ambiguity & suggestion. This thrills some readers & frustrates others. In Turn of the Screw, James believed the reader would fill in the gaps w/ things more terrifying than he could invent. —
@GarthGreenwell
#APStogether
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It's true, we are!
#CallForSubmissions
:
@APublicSpace
#Brooklyn
-based
#litmag
is open for previously unpublished
#fiction
#cnf
&
#poetry
submissions through April!
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“They talked of peace, but did not believe in its possibility. They talked of battle and also did not believe in the nearness of battle.”
Perhaps when we say we live in history, it means we live in shared disbeliefs rather than individual ones. –Yiyun
#TolstoyTogether
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Here we go, friends of
#TolstoyTogether
! For readers new to us, Yiyun will post daily thoughts at 10am, 10:15am, and 10:30am ET, which can also be found here:
The entire reading schedule can be found here:
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Our next
#APStogether
! Starting June 10th, we will be reading The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald, with the one and only
@egabbert
! We can't wait to gather in June for an experience that can only be called sublime...
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I always tell my students that a 3rd person narrator is (as I once heard God described) “a gaseous invertebrate.” Every gas has different properties; some can permeate any border & some only select; some 3rd person narrators can have opinions. —
@elizmccracken
#APStogether
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Julia Karagin’s letter saves us from having to read ten more chapters of how Old Count Bezukhov’s will get sorted out. A good gossip is good assistant to a novelist. —Yiyun
#TolstoyTogether
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Friends who are worrying about catching up: Tolstoy was late, running behind schedule. We can be too, while reading War and Peace. As long as nobody is eaten by the bears, we shall prevail. –Yiyun
#TolstoyTogether
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. –– James Baldwin
#APStogether
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Writers who have not yet contracted to publish a book are invited to apply for a 2019 A Public Space Fellowship, which aims to seek out and support writers who embrace risk in their work and their own singular vision:
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What's a better way to spend the countdown to our next
#APStogether
read than snooping on the internet and discovering a new book by
@elizmccracken
!
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“The reason we read literature—rather than just watch War and Peace the movie—is that books have a way of unfolding the interiority of characters moreso than anything onscreen.” — Yiyun Li, in our
#TolstoyTogether
live event.
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Congratulations to
@jamelbrinkley
, whose debut, A LUCKY MAN (
@GraywolfPress
+ A Public Space), is now shortlisted for the
@nationalbook
Award in Fiction! The winner will be announced Nov. 14:
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Let’s celebrate Tolstoy together. Join us on June 11 for a virtual discussion of War and Peace with Yiyun Li.
#TolstoyTogether
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We are starting week 2 of
#TolstoyTogether
! Here's Prince Snoopsky, one of the leading characters in the greatest American novel, imparting his wisdom on slow reading and deep thinking.
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What a great journey with you,
@ilya_poet
! We will always remember this from Szymborska. “I prefer the absurdity of writing poems / to the absurdity of not writing poems.”
#APStogether
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"A life spent reading–that is a good life." –Annie Dillard
A sentiment shared by
#APStogether
friends. From Tolstoy to James to Dillard, we look forward to slow reading with
@elizmccracken
and everyone.
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There's ONE DAY LEFT to apply for our 2020 Fellowships! $1,000 stipend, publication in the magazine, & 6 months of editorial support. There's no residency requirement; you can live anywhere in the world. Guidelines: Questions? megan
@apublicspace
.org
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Sometimes it’s helpful to hear James’s sentences read aloud. The best audio version of Turn of the Screw I’ve found is Emma Thompson's—who, it turns out, did her degree on James. Here she is talking about the novella.
@GarthGreenwell
#APStogether
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Dear friends: WE DID IT. AGAIN! We have read slowly, devotionally, miscellaneously, and we have read with our eyes and ears, our memory, our mathematical skills. Thank you for this journey. See you around the corner, out of our free wills. —Yiyun Li
#TolstoyTogether
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We’re thrilled to be one of three inaugural
#WhitingLitMagPrize
winners, recognized for “superb publishing, advocacy of writers, and importance to the literary community,” with gratitude to the
@WhitingFdn
for its generosity and vision!
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"You think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented ... but then you read." - James Baldwin
(Image: Allan Warren)
http://t.co/OjIxaIEexG
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Szymborska’s “ABC” is one of those pieces where she takes an ages-old form—this time abecedarian—and breathes new life into it: there’s gossip, there’s tenderness, there’s grief, and, as ever, it is all happening at the same time, in just a few lines: —
@ilya_poet
#APStogether
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#TolstoyTogether
: it’s Leo’s (Lev’s ) birthday!
💎 LEO TOLSTOY
Born on this day, in 1828
“Tolstoy loved music.
He wept when he heard Beethoven.”
~ Larissa Volokhonsky
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James is my favorite stylist in English, & this sentence is a marvel: at once balanced (“whatever it was that I knew” / “nothing was known”) & thrown off-kilter by inversion (putting the “of” phrase first). It enacts the governess’s bewilderment. —
@GarthGreenwell
#APStogether
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“He did not, as they say, know how to enter a salon, and still less did he know how to leave one.”
Pierre reminds me of Winnie the Pooh, and is as dear to me. —Yiyun
#TolstoyTogether
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So looking forward to reading Henry James with
@GarthGreenwell
. We'll read 10 pages/day, starting TOMORROW. Join us!
#APStogether
Day 1. Prologue-Chapter 1. From "The story had held us..." to "Well, I was strangely at the helm!"
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We cannot help but point out our favorite answer to this question. P&W: "What would you say to someone who doesn't believe writing matters?" Yiyun: "I'm sorry for your loss."
#FromTheArchive
: In our Jan/Feb issue from 2019, we asked Yiyun Li, “What would you say to the ten-year-old you?” She responded: “The world won’t become better, but you’ll find more ways to deal with it.”
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What a day of wonderful news! Yiyun Li's THE BOOK OF GOOSE is the winner of the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction! 🎉🎉🎉
We could not be more excited to announce that Yiyun Li’s The Book of Goose has been selected as the winner of the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
“I am deeply honored, thrilled, and grateful for this award,” said Li.
Read the full announcement here:
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Your summer reading is here! Announcing the summer
#APStogether
book-club picks, with writer-hosts
@GarthGreenwell
,
@elizmccracken
,
@ilya_poet
,
@elliottholt
, Ed Park, and
@CPhillipsPoet
. First up: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
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Our dearest
#TolstoyTogether
leader, Yiyun Li, is in
@nybooks
today writing about the book club!
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“The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.”
Yes! Also: methinks those insisting Moby-Dick is but a boring whaling tale are oysters mistaking the thick water for the thinnest air.—Yiyun Li
#APStogether
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“They wept because they were friends…and because they, who had been friends since childhood, were concerned with such a mean subject—money; and because their youth was gone.”
One of the most touching moments between two unsympathetic characters. —Yiyun
#TolstoyTogether
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"Q how do you know you’re a ghost
A it’s the sliding
Q is it like sleep
A like scything"
.
From Anne Carson's "Ghost Q & A," APS 13. Boo!
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Ready for
#TolstoyTogether
? Here's a glimpse of Yiyun Li's desk this morning: Tolstoy Together, 85 Days of War and Peace, with two translations (Brigg's and Pevear/Volokhonsky). Preorder your book today and join us September 15th!
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“The Mast-Head” is one gorgeous chapter. Too many good lines to quote. Sometimes I think we readers are mast-head standers, too: some, alert, with the goal to chase and kill the whales; others, dreaming, with elusive thoughts half seen, half felt. —Yiyun Li
#APStogether
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Today we are half way through War and Peace! It feels like yesterday when we first set foot in Anna Pavlovna's party in 1805, unable to remember who's who! Now we are watching the Great Comet of 1811/1812.
#TolstoyTogether
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A note for those just joining us, thinking of joining us, and those of us here already: War and Peace is, like all books, best enjoyed at your own pace. For
#TolstoyTogether
, there is no such thing as falling behind.💕
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Our next
#APStogether
starts on September 17th! We're reading James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel, Giovanni's Room, with the magnificent
@CPhillipsPoet
("A meditation on otherness" as Carl calls the novel).
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Tushin in action: “He pictured himself as of enormous size, a mighty man, flinging cannonballs at the French with both hands.”
The difference between a man with an ego and a man without one: Prince Andrei’s superhero fantasy is joyless; Tushin’s, gleeful. –Yiyun
#TolstoyTogether
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We are now accepting applications for our Emerging Writer Fellowship. Learn more here:
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Yiyun Li in
@NewYorker
: "The thing I really like is he's such a solid writer. I can put my trust in Tolstoy's words."
Listen to Yiyun's conversation with
@joshuarothman
:
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“...in full parade dress, their waists, fat or slender, tightened to the utmost.”
A minor cosmetic detail, but one that makes me say: YES! Waists tightened to the utmost are half of what the army is about. —Yiyun Li
#TolstoyTogether
Photo credit: Yiyun Li, 1991, Chinese army
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I have a first edition whose cover describes ‘Green Water, Green Sky’ as a “novel in which time is the principal actor.” In some sense, time is the principal actor in all fiction, but I think that the perception of time is the main actor here. —
@elliottholt
#APStogether
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There is never wrong time to read James Baldwin, but to read Baldwin with
@CPhillipsPoet
––we can't wait!
Our next
#APStogether
starts on Thursday, Sept 17th.
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Happy pub date to our dear
@cummins_megan
! Her collection, If the Body Allows it, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in fiction, is out today from
@UnivNebPress
! 🥳🥳🥳
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"People say 'write the novel you want to read,' so I did. The novel is very much a love letter to translation. But it’s also about how none of us see each other in anything more than slivers."
@IdraNovey
via
@ElectricLit
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The opening of War and Peace is always a thrill to read. The characters, some essential ingredients, some garnishes, are all participating in the party alike, yet each is calculating, troubled, and unhappy in his or her own way. —Yiyun Li
#TolstoyTogether
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“One who sees so much and so well does not need to invent; one who observes imaginatively does not need to create imagination." —Stefan Zweig on Tolstoy
#TolstoyTogether
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APPLY for our 2023 Writing Fellowships!
We welcome submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from writers who have not yet contracted to publish a book. International applicants are encouraged to apply.
Details and how to apply:
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Applications are now open for the 2016 APS Emerging Writer Fellowships. Send us your stories!
http://t.co/WlZNZdlzXV
http://t.co/BWpV4irkUw
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A week from today, we will be going aboard, exploring the watery world of Moby-Dick with Yiyun Li and all
#APStogether
. Some asked, but any edition will do. We will be reading by chapters, with the detailed schedule here:
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In
@camillerankine
's "Words in Action," we will explore ideas of literary activism through reading work by these writers—and examine the ways in which your own writing can be a space of political action. The deadline to enroll is this Saturday at 5 pm:
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Happy birthday to Vladimir Nabokov, who attends
#TolstoyTogether
through his hilariously acerbic criticism.
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Starting August 6, we will read Map with the wonderful
@ilya_poet
, and spend some time of this unforgettable summer with "a poet who knows what it means live in a moment of crisis. A poet who laughs amidst misfortune. A poet who delights."
#APStogether
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The happiest of pub days to our dear friend Yiyun LI, "a master of going to the places where words fail us," and her extraordinary novel MUST I GO
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because white men can’t
police their imagination
black men are dying
—Claudia Rankine, profiled tonight on PBS:
http://t.co/uUoD3apB6m
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How it works: you read about 12 pages/day, and Yiyun shares thoughts and passages on Twitter & Insta (
@APublicSpace
), and on our website
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