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    Behind the Mic

    AudioFile’s 2021 Best Audiobooks: A Conversation with Narrator Rebecca Lowman

    By Behind the Mic   December 1, 2021
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    The adaptation of Alice Sebold’s memoir has been canceled.

    By Walker Caplan  November 30, 2021
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    This artist creates gorgeous paintings on the edges of hardcover books.

    By Walker Caplan  November 30, 2021
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    Red Alert: This library made a Taylor Swift display.

    By Katie Yee  November 30, 2021
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    A public library was denied funding over an LGBTQ+ support group—so patrons took action.

    By Walker Caplan  November 30, 2021
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    The delightful Marcus Rashford has written a delightful-sounding children’s book.

    By Dan Sheehan  November 30, 2021
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    Mark Twain disliked suspenders so much that he invented the bra clasp. (That’s right.)

    By Emily Temple  November 30, 2021
    Book Covers

    The 11 Best Book Covers of November

    By Emily Temple  November 30, 2021
    Free Speech

    Why Writers Shouldn’t Wait for Permission to Create the Stories They Want

    By James Hannaham  November 30, 2021
    Race

    On the Monumental, Lasting Impact of Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Olympic Games

    By John Feinstein  November 30, 2021
    Activism

    How the Great Dorothy Day’s Anger Was an Expression of Her Faith

    By Kaya Oakes  November 30, 2021
    Literary History

    The Italian Electrical Scientist Who (May Have) Inspired Frankenstein

    By Timothy J. Jorgensen  November 30, 2021
    Lit Century

    How Baseball Legend Satchel Paige Sought to Pacify White Fans

    By Lit Century   November 30, 2021
    Keen On

    Patrick Dean on the Ascent of America’s Wildest Peak

    By Keen On  November 30, 2021
    First Draft

    EJ Levy on the Complicated Life of James Miranda Barry

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 30, 2021
    Authors in the Tent

    Shelley Blanton-Stroud On the Different Ways We Mythologize the Past

    By The Virtual Book Channel  November 30, 2021
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    Listen to Chadwick Boseman read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  November 29, 2021
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    COVER REVEAL: Northwestern University Press’s collection Growing Up Chicago.

    By Literary Hub  November 29, 2021
    Arab Literature

    How Did the Arab Spring Change Fiction?

    By Talya Zax  November 29, 2021
    Graphic Novels

    Mirion Malle: “Let’s Talk About Mental Health Without Pointing Blame”

    By Sophie Yanow  November 29, 2021
    The Writing Life

    On Finally Finding an Authentic Voice (After Writing Several Dozen Books)

    By Mark Scarbrough  November 29, 2021
    Literary History

    Francine Prose on Her Encounters with the Literary Strange

    By Francine Prose  November 29, 2021
    #MeToo

    The Last Essay I Need to Write about David Foster Wallace

    By Mary K. Holland  November 29, 2021
    Keen On

    Jordan Salama on Journeying Colombia’s Magdalena River

    By Keen On  November 29, 2021
    Labor

    How My Passion Project Led to Burnout: On the Bittersweet Rewards of Creative Risks

    By Leigh Stein  November 29, 2021
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