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Literary Cultural Districts, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
October 28, 2013
On the Shelf
A group of advocates is looking to establish
the nation’s first literary cultural district
in historically-rich Boston. Says the
Globe
, “Its proponents don’t know exactly where its borders will lie, or what, precisely, visitors will do, but more significant is this: the very idea that there could be a literary cultural district is recognition that the city is undergoing a renaissance.”
A Cleveland house
where Langston Hughes lived
as a high-school student is on the market, following a foreclosure.
Germaine Greer
has sold her archive to her alma mater, the University of Melbourne. The feminist’s portion of the three million dollar sale will go to her charity, Friends of Gondwana Rainforest.
“Because we are less sure of what fiction is ‘saying,’ we are less preemptively defended against it or biased in its favor. We are inclined to let it past our fortifications. It’s merely a court jester, there to amuse us. We let in the brazen liar and his hidden, difficult truths.”
Rivka Galchen
on the relevance of fiction.
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