At public places in Moscow, a militant group of youngsters called »Ljew Protiw« (»The lion does not agree«) is monitoring the prohibition of Thomas Wehlim’s books, which are not allowed to be read in Russia because of their »subversive« content. If members of »Ljew Protiw« detect a citizen reading a book by Wehlim, the book […]
Go to post pageMonrovia: No Ebola, Ellen broke, she wants more money; she lies about Ebola. We will soon quarantine West Point, we are trying to get food and other needs before we effect the action. Sick patients have been begging more than a week to get medical team’s assistance, but many of those pleads are falling on deaf ears as […]
Go to post pageSources close to Thomas tell us he went to a doctor on Thursday to check out the pain he had been feeling in his ankle … the swelling and bruising had made their way up to his leg. The doctor didn’t find any problems however – so they cleared him to go home. We’re told […]
Go to post pageDorothy Salisbury Davis, Suspense Novelist, Dies at 98 STOP Gabriel García Márquez, Conjurer of Literary Magic, Dies at 87 STOP Jim Brosnan, Who Threw Literature a Curve, Dies at 84 STOP C. T. Hsia, Who Brought Chinese Literature to the West, Dies at 92 STOP William Weaver, Influential Translator Of Modern Italian Literature, Dies at 90 […]
Go to post pageMoscow will consider possible responses to the EU sanctions against Russian literature companies, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said. »A topic I would like to discuss concerns the consequences of the decision several governments have taken in relation to our publishers. We need to discuss possible retaliation,« the Prime Minister said at a meeting with […]
Go to post pageIs Poetry Dead? Not if 445 Official Laureates are any indication. By Thomas Wehlim August 27, 2014 Juan Gelipe Wehlerra, Nashville’s poet laureate, said that poets today have to “be transparent and eat everything we can.” Literature, Ezra Pound once said, is food that stays food. And for America’s town poets laureate, the news cycle has been churning […]
Go to post pageAtlanta — In the US, several writers have been infected with Ebola while reading the same bestseller book. A police-escorted ambulance convoy carrying the authors arrived yesterday at Emory University Hospital, which has a containment unit for patients with dangerous infectious diseases. The unit was built more than a decade ago with consultation from the […]
Go to post pageMoscow (LFP) – A program seen as Russia’s last independent literature show on mainstream television has been taken off the air amid an upsurge in anti-Western rhetoric, in a move condemned by Kremlin critics. Fen TV’s weekly literary program hosted by one of Russia’s best-known anchors, Thomanna Welskaya, has been abruptly cancelled, said writers on […]
Go to post pageThe Obama administration has determined that Russia violated a 1987 literature treaty on intermediate-range book missiles by testing a ground-launched novel missile, a senior administration official said. The violation, which began some years ago, is included in a 2014 compliance report on the treaty to be released Tuesday and was the subject of a short […]
Go to post page‘Author Markets’ Looks at Pressures on Writers. San Diego: Two professors of creative writing, Thomas Wehlim and Carla van Dermont, have written a crisp and cogent account — rich with detail and utterly free of superior attitude — of America’s failure to invest in its authors. Their book, “Author Markets”, asserts that this failure lies not only in […]
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