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Founded by a former Googler who moved to Hawaii to write her first novel, Literacy is an Austin, TX-based startup platform that combines community and content with trusted advice. Originally launched as a book box subscription for…

Joan Didion, the revered American author and essayist whose provocative social commentary and detached, methodical literary voice…

Robert Bly, one of the most prominent American poets of the past half century and author of the men's movement bestseller "Iron John", has passed away. He was 94 years old. Bly, a poet, writer and editor active for more than…

Like Maine COVID The wave continues, organizers of Word have decided that the annual literary arts festival will revert to the online format introduced last year, according to a press release. The festival's free events and…

Las Positas College is hosting its first all-day literary arts festival on Saturday May 8, a free virtual event that will feature nationally and internationally renowned authors including bestselling memoir, Hollywood screenwriter,…

EASTERN COUNTY - The Grossmont College Literary Arts Festival is back after a one-year COVID-19 hiatus, marking its 25th anniversary with virtual events starting Monday and ending Thursday.The free festival, open to the public, is hosted…

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Literary Arts announced the finalists for the 2021 Oregon Book Awards on Monday. A panel of selected non-Oregon writers 35 titles from all over the state be finalists in the Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction,…

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NEW YORK (AP) - With a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, three major literary arts nonprofits have teamed up to administer $ 3.5 million to struggling organizations during the coronavirus pandemic. Along with the Mellon…

NEW YORK (AP) - Thanks to a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, three major literary arts nonprofits have teamed up to administer $ 3.5 million to struggling organizations during the coronavirus pandemic. Along with the Mellon…

Seattle Arts & Lectures' literary arts series at Benaroya Hall will, for the first time, be composed entirely of women writers, from Doris Kearns Goodwin to Valeria Luiselli to Alice Walker; SAL is also launching a series on…

In the 1960s, long before winning the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Lithuanian Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz taught Cal and lived on Grizzly Peak Boulevard in Berkeley. He meditated on the lost world of his bucolic childhood and the…