Tuesday, July 15, 2014

THE ROUNDUP with PW



Nobel Prize Winner Nadine Gordimer Dies: South African author Nadine Gordimer, one of the literary world's most powerful voices against apartheid, died on July 13 at the age of 90.

A Friendly Giant, as Long as It’s Fed: From household names to deeply obscure scribblers, authors are inflamed this summer, perhaps more deeply divided than at any point in nearly a half-century, over Amazon's grip on the cultural machinery.

Gates Creates a Hit : An out-of-print collection of essays about corporate America first published in 1969 has shot to the top of bestseller lists after Bill Gates revealed it was his favorite business book.

David Mitchell to Tweet Short Story : The "Cloud Atlas" author will publish 20 tweets twice a day of his short story, "The Right Sort," to help promote his new novel out in September.

A Game as Literary Tutorial : How Dungeons & Dragons has influenced a generation of writers.






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