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Williams Wells Brown Becomes 1st African-American Published Playwright on This Day in 1858

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Playwright, lecturer, and author Williams Wells Brown (pictured) is recognized for two historic feats in the literary world: He was the first African American to…

Williams Wells Brown Becomes 1st African-American Published Playwright on This Day in 1858

Williams Wells Brown Becomes 1st African-American Published Playwright on This Day in 1858

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Playwright, lecturer, and author Williams Wells Brown (pictured) is recognized for two historic feats in the literary world: He was the first African American to…

Williams Wells Brown Becomes 1st African-American Published Playwright on This Day in 1858

Casey Anthony to Sit Down With NBC?

NBC is reportedly working hard to land an interview with Casey Anthony, and thinks it may have found a way to do so without paying her a dime, either. Technically. An NBC news producer is reaching out to people in the literary world, according to reports , trying to score a book deal for Anthony. What’s the catch? The producer has told literary agents and others that if he scored a book deal for Casey, she’d give the network a one-hour, exclusive primetime special. While there is believed to be a bidding war for the first interview with Casey, news networks can’t or won’t pay her … so they look for crafty workarounds. Portions of that interview would also run on Today , probably resulting in mega-ratings for the Peacock. All the while, someone else would pay Casey. The producer makes it clear NBC couldn’t pay a cent for the interview, but is pushing hard for a book deal, even saying Casey wants up front money. Jose Baez, Casey’s lawyer, says he ahs knowledge of the producer’s efforts, but says, “I’m not involved in that process. I did not entice him to do it.” Baez also adds, “Casey is not ready to do an interview.” Anthony, who remains in hiding, is also being courted by Barbara Walters , we’re told. Casey Anthony :

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Ginnifer Goodwin’s Something Borrowed Plight Explained in 1990s Rap Terms

If you’d dismissed the upcoming Ginnifer Goodwin-Kate Hudson wedding-themed chick flick Something Borrowed as just another Bride Wars -esque lady comedy, think again; Something Borrowed tackles a subject that’s been on the minds of modern artists for decades — the moral lines between friendship, love, sex, and betrayal. Or, in the immortal words of hip-hop group Naughty by Nature, circa 1991, it’s about one concept in particular: O.P.P.

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Would Jennifer Egan’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning A Visit From the Goon Squad Make a Good Movie?

Earlier today, Brooklyn author Jennifer Egan was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for A Visit From the Goon Squad . Set in New York City (mostly), Egan’s non-linear novel follows a cast of aging, self-destructive characters involved in or around the music industry and has been celebrated by Publishers Weekly , the New York Times and many other literary outlets. Now, Movieline wonders whether Goon Squad should follow in the footsteps of other Pulitzer Prize-winning novels like The Color Purple , The Hours and The Road and be adapted for the big screen.

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OMG! IT’S A CAPS LOCK PARTY!

The rule of caps lock is pretty simple: You could have written your thoughts on the actual meaning of life and the key to world peace, and they could have saved the world – but if you post it in CAPS LOCK, no one will read it. Why is caps lock a bad thing? Because typing in all CAPS LOCK makes you look like a bleedin' idiot. It's the literary equivalent to screaming as loud as you can in a fast monotone. Right in the ear. Here are a few random CAPS LOCK posts from… added by: DoctorLulzington

Hollywood Tweets RIPs to Salinger and Zinn

It’s a sad day in the literary world with the passing of writers J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye) and Howard Zinn (The People’s History of the United States), and Hollywood…

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The Literary Manboys of New York City

In today’s New York Times , we met John Bowe, a 42-year-old writer and bachelor who fell in love for the first time at age 39—in Saipan .

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Gawker’s ‘Status Galley’ Book Club: Twitter Wit, The Authorized Book Of Tweets

Publishers release “advance copies” for the Literary Elite to have before the masses/Oprah ruins them for you. Being spotted with one sometimes merits “status”…that we’re about to ruin. Today’s selection is TwitterWit , The Big Book of Collected Tweets! A quick reminder of what a Status Galley is, via Leon Neyfakh at the New York Observer : Basically the term refers to an advance reader’s copy of a highly anticipated book that hasn’t been published yet.

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Kate Moss to Pen ‘Exciting’ Autobiography

Getty Images. Don't Miss: Kate Moss to Write Cookbook?

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