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    Barack Obama has created a playlist to accompany A Promised Land.

    By Walker Caplan  December 21, 2020
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Dec. 21st to Dec. 27th

    By Kiki Nicole  December 21, 2020
    On Death

    Notable Literary Deaths in 2020

    By Emily Temple  December 18, 2020
    Book News

    A Thank You to Outgoing Lit Hub Executive Editor
    John Freeman

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    How many of Obama’s favorite books of 2020 have you read?

    By Dan Sheehan  December 17, 2020
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    A never-before-seen Shirley Jackson story has just been published.

    By Walker Caplan  December 17, 2020
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    Move over, Arrival. Here’s the latest Ted Chiang story headed to adaptation glory.

    By Emily Temple  December 17, 2020
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    Christopher Hitchens’s backlist is getting a cool new redesign.

    By Emily Temple  December 17, 2020
    The Final Countdown

    The Biggest Literary Stories
    of the Year: 30 to 11

    By Emily Temple  December 17, 2020
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    Elizabeth Warren’s memoir, entitled (you guessed it) Persist, will be published in April.

    By Walker Caplan  December 16, 2020
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    Wittgenstein’s children’s dictionary has been translated into English for the first time.

    By Walker Caplan  December 16, 2020
    Best of 2020

    Unemployed and Underemployed Booksellers Choose Their Favorite Books of the Year

    By The Bookstore at the End of the World  December 16, 2020
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    Moon Unit Zappa, writer and daughter of Frank Zappa, is publishing a memoir.

    By Walker Caplan  December 15, 2020
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    Penguin Random House and Jay-Z’s Roc Nation have launched a new imprint.

    By Rasheeda Saka  December 15, 2020
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    We’re getting a Shirley Jackson tribute anthology in 2021.

    By Walker Caplan  December 15, 2020
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    The best reviewed novel of 2020 is…

    By Book Marks  December 15, 2020
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    John le Carré, legendary spy novelist, has died at 89.

    By Emily Temple  December 14, 2020
    The Final Countdown

    The Biggest Literary Stories
    of the Year: 50 to 31

    By Emily Temple  December 14, 2020
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Dec. 14th to Dec. 20th

    By Kiki Nicole  December 14, 2020
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    Black booksellers question anointment of Tattered Cover as ‘US’s biggest Black-owned bookstore.’

    By Jonny Diamond  December 11, 2020
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    Melania Trump’s post-White House book might not be a memoir after all, which is fine.

    By Walker Caplan  December 10, 2020
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    Jordan Smith will serve as Interim Executive Director of the National Book Foundation.

    By Emily Temple  December 10, 2020
    Awards

    Chris Jackson on the Privilege of Being an Editor, and Publishing’s Systemic Problems

    By Literary Hub  December 10, 2020
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    Zahia Rahmani’s “Muslim”: A Novel has won the 2020 Albertine Prize.

    By Rasheeda Saka  December 9, 2020
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