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    The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses has split its prize money among the longlist.

    By Walker Caplan  May 19, 2021
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    Roald Dahl’s secrets for writing children’s literature are officially up for auction.

    By Walker Caplan  May 19, 2021
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    The Yale Review has launched TYR, an online magazine.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  May 19, 2021
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    These are the best university press book designs of 2020.

    By Emily Temple  May 19, 2021
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    This random list of things Lorraine Hansberry liked and disliked is delightful.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  May 19, 2021
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    John Cleese has no idea how many bookstores there are in America.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 19, 2021
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    Mary South’s nursing home phone-sex short story is getting the Hollywood treatment.

    By Dan Sheehan  May 19, 2021
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    A new John le Carré novel is coming this fall.

    By Emily Temple  May 19, 2021
    Literary History

    The Time I Watched Norman Mailer Try to Fight G. Gordon Liddy in the Street

    By James Grady  May 19, 2021
    The Jazz Age

    The Half-Truths of Harrison Post: Moneyed Magnate or Jazz Age Grifter?

    By Liz Brown  May 19, 2021
    Pandemics

    Jim Shepard: When Your Novel Veers a Little Too Close to Grim Reality

    By Jim Shepard  May 19, 2021
    Politics

    An Argument for Literature as Care Work

    By Alexandra Kingston-Reese  May 19, 2021
    Dating

    Swipe Right for Loneliness: On the Gamification of Dating Apps

    By Nancy Jo Sales  May 19, 2021
    Grief

    Letting Go of Silence in the Wake of Miscarriage

    By Barbara Becker  May 19, 2021
    Black History

    On the Origins of White Europeans’ Bigoted Fascination with Skin Color and Racial Hierarchy

    By Olivette Otele  May 19, 2021
    Keen On

    Do Our Minds Have Immune Systems to Protect Us from Infectious Ideas?

    By Keen On  May 19, 2021
    5 Books You May Have Missed

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    By Bethanne Patrick  May 19, 2021
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    Here’s a running list of bookstores that have unionized.

    By Corinne Segal  May 18, 2021
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    Booksellers at Skylight Books have unionized.

    By Walker Caplan  May 18, 2021
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    Turns out Isaac Asimov, father of robotics, was also the father of 100 “lecherous limericks.”

    By Walker Caplan  May 18, 2021
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    Would you let a random group of strangers on the Internet plot your next novel?

    By Jonny Diamond  May 18, 2021
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    Jhumpa Lahiri is working on a new translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

    By Walker Caplan  May 18, 2021
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    Announcing the second season of FUSE: A BOMB Podcast.

    By Walker Caplan  May 18, 2021
    Boyhood

    On the Ones We Leave Behind: God and Ghosts at the Wisconsin State Fair

    By Barrett Swanson  May 18, 2021
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