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Judge blocks Penguin Random House-Simon & Schuster merger

The judge agreed the deal could lessen competition for top books. Penguin Random House said it would appeal.

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A Q&A with Sandeep Parmar: Supporting Emerging Critics of Color

In the following Q&A, the Academy of American Poets speaks with Sandeep Parmar about her work supporting emerging poetry critics of color, why a range of voices in poetry criticism is so important, and how she and Kaminsky plan to bring this project to the United States.

“I can think of many, too many, examples of (unconscious or conscious) framing of work by poets of color as unliterary, ‘light verse,’ ‘performance poetry,’ or whatever dog whistle might be on the go at any time. As someone who cut their teeth on revising critical histories of neglected modernist women’s poetry, I am deeply conscious of the ways in which identity is invoked to undercut the seriousness of craft, to collapse the distance between the author and the literary value of their text as though they were one and the same. As I’ve also written elsewhere, in the long-term, a real and meaningful shift in cultural value must come with critics whose first loyalty is to the work at hand, to reading it knowledgeably and with an awareness of the structural power within which works of literature are produced and received. It is my strong sense that critics of color bring with them a complex awareness of this structural power that is so desperately needed.”

via @poetsorg

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The US print magazine market has been struggling for some time as consumers switch to other multimedia experiences and to online platforms. The introduction of.