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    WATCH: Poet Eric Gansworth in Conversation with Painter Andrea Carlson and Writer Heid Erdrich

    By Twenty Summers  October 6, 2020
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    The staff of The New Yorker is celebrating a well-earned union victory.

    By Aaron Robertson  October 6, 2020
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    Here are the finalists for the 2020 National Book Awards.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 6, 2020
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    Good news break: a new journal, Air/Light, has launched.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 5, 2020
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    Ethan Hawke’s new (autobiographical) novel is full of rage and sex and longing and despair.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 5, 2020
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    Here’s the shortlist for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 5, 2020
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Oct. 5th-11th

    By Kiki Nicole  October 5, 2020
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    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

    By Book Marks  October 2, 2020
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Weekend in Virtual Book Events, Oct. 2nd-4th

    By Kiki Nicole  October 2, 2020
    Book Festivals

    What to Watch at the Brooklyn Book Festival

    By Literary Hub  October 2, 2020
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    What could 2020 possibly have in store for the Nobel Prizes?

    By Jonny Diamond  October 1, 2020
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    Here’s the shortlist for the Center for Fiction’s 2020 First Novel Prize.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 1, 2020
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    Jamia Wilson and Kevin Young just became two of the most powerful figures in the literary world.

    By Aaron Robertson  September 30, 2020
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    Our terrible year of open letters continues: JK Rowling edition.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 30, 2020
    Reading Women

    How the Pandemic Is Changing Book Marketing

    By Reading Women  September 30, 2020
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    Tremble, puny book awards, before the awesome power of Obama’s memoir.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 29, 2020
    Poets

    Exclusive cover reveal: Kaveh Akbar’s new poetry collection, Pilgrim Bell.

    By Aaron Robertson  September 29, 2020
    Book Covers

    The 10 Best Book Covers
    of September

    By Emily Temple  September 29, 2020
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    Here are the most challenged books from the last decade.

    By Corinne Segal  September 28, 2020
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    Is Chris Hemsworth simply too hot to play a George Saunders hero?

    By Emily Temple  September 28, 2020
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    Here are the best reviewed books of the week!

    By Book Marks  September 25, 2020
    Bestsellers

    Just how odd is this month’s bestseller list? A look at pre-election bestsellers from years past.

    By Aaron Robertson  September 25, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Lisa Lucas on Equity in Publishing and Becoming Comfortable in Her Anger

    By The Quarantine Tapes  September 25, 2020
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    Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift has won the 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Award.

    By Rasheeda Saka  September 23, 2020
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    There’s only one novelist on TIME’s list of 2020’s most influential people. . . again.

    By Emily Temple  September 23, 2020
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