I haven’t been posting much news here, but there’s news at the author society sites:

• Jack London Society: Calls for papers (including one of mine for “Jack London and Women”, deadline 7.10.14) and an extended deadline for this fall’s Jack London Society Symposium at Berkeley.
• SSAWW. Official Call for Papers for the SSAWW 2015 conference and calls for nominations for SSAWW prizes.
• W. D. Howells Society: A picture and a letter from Howells (help needed, please, with deciphering it)
• Stephen Crane Society: Caleb Crain’s essay review of Paul Sorrentino’s new biography
• Legacy announces its 30th anniversary issue.
• Edith Wharton Society. Via Irene Goldman-Price, The Mount updates us on the damage from the bad storm in late June.