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“‘The wise man believes that destiny exists, and that it has need of him. Not fate—destiny.’ In their difference lies a writer’s life.”

Yesterday evening, I read that poet Jim Carroll passed away this weekend from a heart attack at just sixty years old. I surprised myself by crying for a man I did not even know.

Some would toss their e-book device in the glove compartment and head out on the super highway. I’ll take the heft of the book in my hand.

Israel is Real blowback, authors make it big on HBO, Condé Nast soft-pedals an investigation into Putin, and more.

Announcing a new poetry project in the spirit of the Federal Writers’ Project.

What will happen to Caster Semenya if it turns out that some part of her anatomy or biochemistry does not conform to a biological picture of sex in which internal, external, and chromosomal status all match?

Dominique Browning asks why somebody won’t think of the children?

Mark Penn continues to embarrass the WSJ, Venezuela cracks down on publishers, the poetry of Shimon Peres, and more.