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‘I can’t stress how much BookTok sells’: teen literary influencers swaying publishers ( www.theguardian.com )

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Read Your Way Through Hanoi ( www.nytimes.com )

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A poet’s ground-level account of the collapse of Uyghur society ( wapo.st )

In ‘Waiting to be Arrested at Night,’ Tahir Hamut Izgil mourns a world of loved ones and letters lost...

What are you reading? (August 2023)

Hey Beehaw (and friends)! What’re you reading?...

The Booker Prize 2023 longlist ( thebookerprizes.com )

The longlist has been announced! It features work from four continents, four Irish writers, four debut novelists – and ten authors who are recognised by the Booker Prize for the first time...

Peter Pan and the Copyright that Never Grew Up - Plagiarism Today ( www.plagiarismtoday.com )

When most people discuss perpetual copyrights, they’re usually its at least somewhat hyperbolic....

The Booker Prize Foundation is partnering with Prisons in the UK to support reading groups ( lithub.com )

Working with the Booker Prize Foundation, Dua Lipa recently visited HMP Downview, a women’s prison in Surrey, to get a firsthand glimpse of Books Unlocked, a program set up by the BPF and the National Literacy to foster a culture of reading for incarcerated people. Lipa, who recently launched a book club of her own, said of...

Nobody Ever Read American Literature Like This Guy Did ( www.nytimes.com )

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‘It’s exciting, it’s powerful’: how translated fiction captured a new generation of readers ( www.theguardian.com )

My reading spot for the weekend ( beehaw.org )

Booksellers sue over Texas law requiring them to rate books for appropriateness ( www.texastribune.org )

Help identifying source of a Lytton Strachey quote

Hi guys, how’s it going? I’m trying to identify the source of a commonly cited quote by Lytton Strachey that goes as follows: “Perhaps the best test of a man’s intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.”...

Public libraries are the latest front in culture war battle over books ( www.washingtonpost.com )

“I knew these books were coming into the library, and I just hadn’t had time to research it. I finally got the time back at the end of January,” Egger said. He added that he knows about the industry from having owned a bookstore years ago. “It’s been a huge push from the publishers and the librarians to get these books...