Norman Mailer, William Styron, and a great shot from Poets & Writers' anniversary party in 1980, via @nybooks: http://t.co/BlSSWd0d

Critic James Wood adds his side of the argument in the Jonathan Lethem kerfuffle @the_millions. http://t.co/PI6bfpu1

Drunk texts of famous authors: http://t.co/zmslX1C8 @parisreview

"…the hope of loneliness turning into an authentic voice, into something beautiful." http://t.co/DESJa8FA @the_millions

Kevin Hartnett explains why he believes writing by hand is a better process. http://t.co/G5aMtY58 @the_millions @kshartnett

The good people at @the_millions want to see where you write: http://t.co/ZoZkQICr #writespace

Charles Simic explains why he still writes poetry. http://t.co/dMEl1DaD @nybooks #DailyNews

How do professors choose which applicants to select for an MFA program? One former decider spills the beans. http://at.pw.org/hrfL5z

105 creative writing contests with deadlines between today and March 16:  http://at.pw.org/V2os0s 

Novelists Jonathan Lethem & Jennifer Egan visited Occupy Wall Street in NYC yesterday. #DailyNews #ows http://t.co/q7gbxrmB

25 literary magazines looking for your work & more from P&W's e-newsletter: http://at.pw.org/p118nm Get news: http://at.pw.org/oIp8as

Try writing this poem. From @poetswritersinc: http://at.pw.org/eLX9DJ

Hazzard: "Poetry can save the souls of people who feel cut off from a deeper thing in themselves" inexpressible in commonplace language.

In #DailyNews, @andevers looks at how Baltimore has treated the Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum.  http://at.pw.org/WKiYtm 

All of the manuscripts of Emily Dickinson held by Amherst College are now freely available online.  http://at.pw.org/VOyPn7 

Happy birthday to The Great Gatsby! (Published by Scribner on this day in 1925.) http://t.co/RlZk6g5q @vol1brooklyn

10 books of poetry everyone should read. #DailyNews http://t.co/OOd1lWY

Banned books are returning to shelves across Tunisia and Egypt after the regimes that suppressed them were ousted. http://at.pw.org/eJ0MoH

A former Apple designer has launched a digital book making company called Push Pop Press. http://at.pw.org/gHi9ES

Is there a distinct MFA literary culture separate from but overlapping a New York City literary culture? http://at.pw.org/i9YW45