TODAY: In 2006, Egyptian writer and 1988 Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz, dies.
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- The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize shortlist has been announced. | The Center for Fiction
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- The new issue of the Evergreen Review is now online, featuring work from Helen DeWitt, Robert Coover, and more. | Evergreen Review
- “This dried roach once swam in a cabbage stew that I ate at the counter of a railroad station.” A newly translated sketch by Anton Chekhov. | The Paris Review
- Thin fish bones arranged on the bone plate, a bracelet / Blushing after wine and high sun: A poem by Jenny Xie. | The New Republic
- Following reports of his history of forgery and grifting, PEN Center USA has withdrawn John Smelcer’s Stealing Indians from consideration for their 2017 Literary Award for YA. | The Stranger
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