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News
- New book, The Language of Thieves, available now.

- Op-ed on the last four years, LA Times.
- The Language of Thieves is NYTimes Editors' Choice book.
- Just out: Iranian edition of The Written World, with interview.
  - Review of Language of Thieves in NYTimes.
- Pre-pub review of Language of Thieves in Publishers Weekly.
- Read and excerpt of Language of Thieves in CrimeReads.
- Interview with Beijing News.
- The Written World wins Massachusetts Book Award.
- The Written World available in translation: Brazil, China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Portugal, Czech Republic, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Iran, Ukraine, Turkey, Saudi Arabia (more on the way).
- The Written World on WSJ bestseller list; NYTimes Editors' Choice.
- Martin Puchner wins Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin
- The Story of Literature--in 1001 Words (BBC)
- The Technological Shift Behind the World's First Novel (Atlantic)
- Op-ed on literature in careers of Obama and Trump  (Irish Times).
- Ten Books that Changed the World (Granta).
- Martin Puchner wins Guggenheim fellowship.
- Martin Puchner wins Cullman fellowship at the New York Public Library.
- New Norton Anthology of World Literature, with Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey, especially commissioned for this edition.

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Upcoming event:
- January 11, Channing House.
- January 27, BBC, with Michael Rosen.
- January 19, North Shore Book Club.
- February 18, Princeton University.
- February 26, Linguistics Group.
​- March 22, Aarhus University.

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