‘I can’t stress how much BookTok sells’: teen literary influencers swaying publishers ( www.theguardian.com )
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NPR's Books We Love for 2023 ( www.npr.org )
Latinx authors are renowned in sci-fi and fantasy. Why aren’t more of their books being published? ( 19thnews.org )
“The Iliad may be ancient – but it’s not far away” Emily Wilson on Homer’s blood-soaked epic ( www.theguardian.com )
Queer History Was Made in ’90s Clubs. These Fliers Captured It. ( www.nytimes.com )
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Nobody Ever Read American Literature Like This Guy Did ( www.nytimes.com )
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One Morning in Maine, 225 People Went to the Library ( www.nytimes.com )
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The Artful Imperfection of Medieval Manuscript Repair ( www.atlasobscura.com )
Here are 19 books our critics are excited for this summer (NPR) ( www.npr.org )
Some of these look really interesting! Definitely want to check out Silver Nitrate since I’ve enjoyed her work in the past. Anything catch your eye?
The Nobel literature prize goes to Norway's Jon Fosse, who once wrote a novel in a single sentence ( apnews.com )
‘Times change’: what authors think about rewriting older books ( www.theguardian.com )
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How to Live a Happy Life, From a Leading Atheist ( www.nytimes.com )
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‘I wanted to be No 1. But a certain JK Rowling came along’: Jacqueline Wilson on rivalry, censorship – and love ( www.theguardian.com )
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‘What we publish will stay with you’: inside a small but mighty literary hit factory ( www.theguardian.com )
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‘It’s exciting, it’s powerful’: how translated fiction captured a new generation of readers ( www.theguardian.com )
Chuck Tingle Goes Mainstream...ish ( themillions.com )
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We asked book lovers to reflect on Hispanic Heritage Month. Here’s what they recommended. ( 19thnews.org )
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....
Fantasy: Realms of Imagination exhibition opens at the British Library soon, along with events with Neil Gaiman, and many more ( downthetubes.net )
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A new memoir tries to mend the pieces of the author's broken Cuban-Jewish family ( www.jta.org )
50 Books | 50 Covers ( www.aiga.org )
2022 winners of the AIGA competition for best designed books and covers of the year. I’ve bought more than a few books specifically because of the cover design and there are several of the winners here that I’ve added to my “to read” list. As much as I read digitally, I still love the physicality of books and think that...
The Far Invisible: Thomas Pynchon as America’s Theologian | Alan Jacobs ( hedgehogreview.com )
A master class in close reading, and a towering analysis of novelist Thomas Pynchon. Really good piece for being an essay published in a relatively laid-back periodical.
Read Your Way Through Hanoi ( www.nytimes.com )
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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...
Gogou, Katerina: Athens' anarchist poetess, 1940-1993 ( libcom.org )
