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Matt Grant
Matt Grant is a Brooklyn-based writer and LitHub's Bookstore and Book News Correspondent. His work has appeared in Longreads, BookRiot, The Huffington Post, and The Brooklyn Rail, among others. You can find him online at www.mattgrantwriter.com or on Twitter: @mattgrantwriter.


The Book Industry Charitable Foundation Has Never Been Busier Helping Bookstores

Matt Grant on the Foundation's Work and How to Help
May 29, 2020  By Matt Grant
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Creating Literary Community for Writers Raising Children

Pen Parentis Turns Ten!
December 6, 2019  By Matt Grant
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Fourteen-Year-Old Marley Dias, Tireless Promoter of Diversity in Literature

"It started in fifth grade, when Dias noticed a lack of diversity in the books she read in school."
August 15, 2019  By Matt Grant
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Urgency and Inspiration at the 2019 New York City Poetry Festival

On Governor's Island, Poetry is Alive and It Is For Everyone
August 8, 2019  By Matt Grant
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Providing Help to Booksellers, When They Need It

BINC Started When Employees Wanted to Help a Sick Coworker
August 7, 2019  By Matt Grant
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Open Secrets at the PEN World Voices Festival

Contemporary Writers on the Crucial Merging of the Personal and the Public in Literature and Politics
May 7, 2019  By Matt Grant
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A Writing School for
Working People

"Workers don’t need to learn about their oppression; they need a space to imagine beyond it."
May 1, 2019  By Matt Grant
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Bright Lights, Big City, New Bookstore

Talking to Benjamin Rybeck, Bookseller at the Center for Fiction
April 8, 2019  By Matt Grant
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What One Person Can Do to Get People Reading

The Story of Alvin Irby and Barbershop Books
November 16, 2018  By Matt Grant
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A Writer At Risk, Working in New York City

Kanchana Ugbabe: "It is like waking up to a festival every day."
October 23, 2018  By Matt Grant
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Every School in the Country Should Have a ‘Raising Readers’ Program

Getting Books Into Bookbags, One Student at a Time
September 19, 2018  By Matt Grant
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New Ways to Pay for More Poetry in the World

On Kickstarter's Summer of Poetry
July 16, 2018  By Matt Grant
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Now You Can Walk the High Line With a Tommy Pico Poem in Your Head

On the Poetic Soundtrack to One of the Most Popular Parks in the Country
June 27, 2018  By Matt Grant
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The Woman Bringing the Bronx its First Book Festival

Meet Saraciea Fennell, the Person Who Started it All
May 17, 2018  By Matt Grant
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PEN World Voices Festival: Resistance, Roxane Gay, and the Next Generation

Toward Freedom and Imagining a Better Future
April 10, 2018  By Matt Grant
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France’s Beloved Short Story Dispensers Are Coming to America

Press a Button, Read a Very Short Story
April 2, 2018  By Matt Grant
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Highlighting the Writing of Refugees

Traveling Stanzas Teaches English Through Poetry
March 7, 2018  By Matt Grant
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Paris’s Literary Hotel, a Room (and Writer) for Each Letter of the Alphabet

(But Are You Sure You Want to Stay in the Kafka Room?)
January 31, 2018  By Matt Grant
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A Short Story Collection for Donald Trump

On Banthology, Writing for the Travel-Ban Nations
January 24, 2018  By Matt Grant
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There Can Never Be Enough Books for Small Children

On Washington DC's 'Books From Birth' Program
January 11, 2018  By Matt Grant
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