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Hillary Clinton’s memoir will be in stores this June. The book recalls her time as secretary of state, and includes “candid reflections about key moments.”

Quora, a question-and-answer site that aspires to Wikipedia status, has raised eighty million dollars to expand their operations. The site claims to have 500,000 topics currently “live.”

The Guggenheim Foundation announces its 2014 fellows. Among the recipients are Chloe Aridjis,

At the New Yorker’s Page-Turner blog, Parul Sehgal considers the work of Muriel Spark, on the occasion of New Directions reissuing her work. Spark’s cruel and beautiful fiction teaches us, Sehgal says, “how powerlessness can make you an expert in the art of appraisal—in assessing someone’s market price down to the penny.”

Tonight at the Brooklyn Public Library, PEN is holding a reading to promote freedom of speech in China. The event will feature Sergio De La Pava, Jennifer Egan, Ha Jin, Alison Klayman, Chang-rae Lee, and Victoria Redel.

Opponents of the city’s plans to overhaul the main

Last month, NYRB Classics reissued William Gass’s On Being Blue. Tonight at the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, Joshua Cohen, Michael Gorra, and Stefanie Sobelle discuss the book, in a conversation moderated by Bookforum editor Albert Mobilio.

The New Republic profiles Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of My Struggle, a six-volume autobiographical novel that speaks in great detail about Knausgaard’s personal life, uses the real names of his family and friends, and has generated an enormous response worldwide. “It fills me with sadness every time I talk about it,” Knausgaard told TNR’

At Salon, Thomas Frank talks to Barbara Ehrenreich about her new book, Living With a Wild God, “a memoir with a point,” as Frank dubs it, that is both intellectual autobiography and spiritual inquiry—unusual, maybe, for a self-described atheist. In an interview with Harper’s, Ehrenreich explains the evolution of her reaction to an experience she now describes as mystical: “It took me decades to say, ‘No, I saw something. There was something other than myself there. And I’m going to take that seriously as some sort of empirical evidence, or clue, or glimpse.’” If you’re in New York tonight,

Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, has sold his forthcoming book to OR Books. When Google Met Wikileaks will not only recount the 2011 meeting between Assange and Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, it will also “outline a potential future for the Internet that would make it faster and much more difficult to censor.”

Two and a Half Men star Jon Cryer  and Breaking Bad actor Bryan Cranston are both writing their memoirs.

Peter Matthiessen died this weekend at age 86, three days before the publication date of his final novel, In Paradise. Matthiessen was, among other things, a founding

A first book of poems by an eighteen-year-old Danish-Palestinian poet, Yahya Hassan, has sold more than a hundred thousand copies since last fall. The poems, written only in uppercase, criticize the Danish government, the poet’s family, and “Danish Muslims at large for hypocrisy, cheating and failure to adapt.” About the right-wing Danish People’s Party having taken a shine to him, “It’s all the same to me,” Hassan says. “I have the responsibility for my poems. I don’t have any responsibility for what others do with them.” Hassan has received numerous death threats, and been assaulted in a

Texas senator and Tea Partier Ted Cruz has sold a book to HarperCollins for close to $1.5 million. Cruz has yet to write the book, but apparently it will be “part memoir and part Cruz’s view of how to get Washington to work again as well as his vision of the future for the country.” At Salon, Alex Pareene explains “why liberals should cheer Cruz’s absurd book deal.”

If you’re in New York tonight, we recommend going to what promises to be a delightful discussion between Mark Ford and John Ashbery.

A story Beckett wrote in 1933, “Echo’s Bones,” will be released this month for the first time by

Jonah Lehrer, who resigned from the New Yorker in 2012 after it was revealed that he had made up quotes, has virtuously turned down a speaking fee for a talk he’ll give this week at the University of Minnesota at Duluth. According to William Payne, head of UMD’s School of Fine Arts, Lehrer plans to discuss “the mistakes he’s made”; the talk’s moderator agrees that “no question is off the table for his entire visit.”

In the wake of a recent New York Times article about bookstores fleeing Manhattan, Dustin Kurtz considers bookstores' role in gentrification.

Yesterday, The Paris Review announced

According to the New York Times, the Ted Hughes estate has denied a biographer access to the poet’s archives. The Hughes estate has gone far to derail Jonathan Bate’s biography, even withdrawing permission to quote the poet at length. The Times speculates that these abrupt actions renew “suggestions that there may be secrets the family still wishes to keep hidden."

In honor of Poetry Month, read Helen Vendler in the LRBon Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Even in profound depression, Hopkins remained immutably honest in aesthetic judgment, a great and rare virtue . . . counterbalancing to the end his

The New York Times asksNew York Times whether Marx was right. Doug Henwood and a handful of others respond. Henwood reviewed Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century for the April/May issue of Bookforum. (Spoiler: Henwood says yes.)

Jake Silverstein, currently the editor of Texas Monthly, has been hired to be the new editor of the New York Times Magazine. According to Times managing editor Dean Baquet, Silverstein will help the magazine build a stronger relationship with the rest of the paper; closer ties with the newsroom, Baquet argues, will give the magazine "a greater sense of urgency."

Manhattan has lost forty-four bookstores in twelve years—among them, Spring Street Books, Coliseum Books, Shakespeare and Company, Endicott Booksellers, and Murder Ink. Sarah McNally, of Manhattan’s McNally Jackson, plans to open her store’s second location in Brooklyn. In the New Yorker, Rebecca Mead points to Brooklyn's thriving independent-bookstore culture, only to lament “a certain kind of book-buying innocence—a time when where one bought a book did not constitute a political statement, and reading it did not feel like participating in a requiem.”

The Morning News Tournament of Books

The New York Public Library has announced the finalists for their 2014 Young Lions Fiction award: Matt Bell, Paul Yoon, Anthony Marra, Chinelo Okparanta, and Jennifer duBois. The winner will be presented with the prize at the library on June 9th.

The Royal Canadian Mint honors Alice Munro with a silver coin that shows “an ethereal female figure emerging from a pen.”

V. V. Ganeshananthan remembers her friend Matthew Power (a young journalist who died while on assignment in Uganda earlier this month), by taking a close look at one of Power’s stories for Harper’s Magazine, “Mississippi Drift,”