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    Danez Smith, Ocean Vuong, and more demand that the Poetry Foundation do more to support Black poets.

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    NYC libraries will reopen for limited service “very soon.”

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    Nikil Saval, writer and n+1 editor, is about to be a state senator.

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    This year’s Desmond Elliott shortlist features all black writers.

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    Publishers are suing the Internet Archive for scanning and distributing copies of their books.

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    Kick off Pride Month by reading these Lambda Literary Award winners.

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    Are people searching “how not to be racist” and finding Ibram X. Kendi’s book?

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    An Alaska school board will keep classics on the curriculum after an uproar over their removal.

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    William Faulkner’s wife and daughters were great at pranks.

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    Here’s the shortlist for the £10,000 Caine Prize.

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    Never forget that Sarah Bernhardt cast herself as Hamlet (at the theater she named for herself).

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    The NYPL has announced the 2020 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalists.

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    Let’s drool over this Japanese house with a public library on the ground floor.

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    A journal Jim Morrison wrote in Paris will soon be up for auction.

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