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The “cheatfest” continues at The University of Iowa, says an unattributed report at Foetry.com, which notes that for one of the school’s recent awards, the John Simmons Short Fiction Award,… Read more »

Rolling Stone wasn’t exactly known for political reporting when Dr. Hunter S. Thompson began writing for it. Now, in this remembrance, the magazine’s James Sullivan remembers the publication’s most famous… Read more »

The recent death in Russia of poet Tatyana Bek “has led to speculation that a falling-out with her fellow poets provoked her to commit suicide,” according to a Moscow Times… Read more »

Late Friday the long list of the 18 nominees for the first ever International Book Prize were announced—not in England but in Washington DC, where American writer John Casey, chair… Read more »

A “sharp fall in revenue” at Harlequin Books has parent company Torstar Corp. worried. According to a Globe & Mail report by Richard Blackwell, “The romance fiction publisher has been… Read more »