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It was little noted elsewhere, but a brief Forbes report observes that Standard & Poor’s Equity Research “downgraded Amazon.com to ‘sell’ from ‘hold’” Monday, saying it expected the company’s “sales… Read more »

In a unique cooperative effort, the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses will join forces with venture capitalist Jim Bildner and his new Literary Ventures Fund to form a new… Read more »

The Oklahoma House of Representatives has passed a resolution that would limit access to children’s books that address gay themes, according to a brief Reuters wire report. The legislation, which… Read more »

Just after Saul Bellow’s death last month, his son Daniel Bellow received an empty envelope in the mail with his father’s return address on it. It was stamped “Received unsealed”… Read more »

“The Mayan women of the Ciapas” in Mexico are extremely poor, and many are illiterate. Still, they’re rich in one thing: poetry, according to a New York Times story by… Read more »

An audio archive of events from the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, held in late April, is now available for free download on the PEN American Center’s website.… Read more »

“John Donne was the Cole Porter of his day, a writer of subtle popular songs rather than just the author of cerebral poetry, according to new research,” says a Times… Read more »