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The New York Public Library seeks audio recordings about life during the pandemic; writers and readers plan Fahrenheit 451 read-a-thon; Mieko Kawakami advocates for a feminist future; and other stories.
Literary leaders reflect on diversity in publishing; HBO begins casting for Between the World and Me; Madeleine Ryan reflects on writing a protagonist with autism; and other stories.
USA Today includes several writers on its list of one hundred “Women of the Century”; Yaa Gyasi on writing a looser second novel; Elisa Gabbert on the essay form; and other stories.
Alisson Wood reflects on the challenges of writing about trauma; Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law discuss how most criminal justice reform falls short; Alexander Larman reports on the decline of British secondhand bookstores; and other stories.
Brandon Taylor reflects on Real Life being longlisted for the Booker Prize; A. O. Scott writes in praise of Edward P. Jones; Southside Weekly profiles Chicago poet Tara Betts; and other stories.
The first lines of twelve noteworthy books, including Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine and Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi.
“I continue pushing and trudging through blanketing whiteness so heavy it often obstructs my vision.”
The #PublishingPaidMe hashtag highlights anti-Black bias within the publishing industry and opens up the conversation about how editors determine book advances.
“I would like to be among the crop of Black writers who emerged from the ashes of a torched racist system.”
“Where do Black folks put all this pain? Where do we put all our anger?”
