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    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Events, Nov. 9th to Nov. 15th

    By Kiki Nicole  November 9, 2020
    On Poetry

    How Claire Malroux’s Translations of Emily Dickinson Shaped Her Own Poetry

    By Marilyn Hacker  November 9, 2020
    Reading Lists

    This Year’s University Press Week Celebrates Work on Racial Justice, Climate Change, and More

    By Literary Hub  November 9, 2020
    Keen On

    Ridding Ourselves of Trumpism Will Mean Leaning Into Disruption

    By Keen On  November 9, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    Sandor Katz Considers Fermentation as Metaphor

    By Emergence Magazine  November 9, 2020
    New Books Network

    That Middle World: The Politics of Passing, from the Antebellum Period to Rachel Dolezal

    By New Books Network  November 9, 2020
    2020 Election

    Rebecca Solnit: Our First Black Woman President Is Here

    By Rebecca Solnit  November 6, 2020
    The Hub

    Election results for places in famous book titles.

    By Dan Sheehan  November 6, 2020
    The Hub

    EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the cover for Anthony Veasna So’s debut story collection, Afterparties.

    By Lit Hub Daily  November 6, 2020
    The Hub

    Don’t know where to start with Colson Whitehead? Here’s a reading list.

    By Dan Sheehan  November 6, 2020
    The Hub

    A comedian has just solved “the world’s most difficult literary puzzle.”

    By Emily Temple  November 6, 2020
    The Hub

    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

    By Book Marks  November 6, 2020
    The Writing Life

    No One Gets Sylvia Plath

    By Emily Van Duyne  November 6, 2020
    Nature

    N. Scott Momaday on the Vulnerability of Prairielands

    By N. Scott Momaday  November 6, 2020
    Keen On

    Our Economics of Domination and Exploitation is
    Wrecking the Planet

    By Keen On  November 6, 2020
    Travel

    Cees Nooteboom Takes a Wintry Ride Through Venice

    By Cees Nooteboom  November 6, 2020
    Children's Lit

    Leanne Hall Examines Her Problematic Childhood Fave

    By Leanne Hall  November 6, 2020
    Immigration

    What America Has Chosen Not to Understand About the Border

    By Charles Bowden  November 6, 2020
    Imprisoned Writers

    Tiyo Attallah Salah-El Navigates the Racialized Politics of Prison

    By Tiyo Attallah Salah-El  November 6, 2020
    Craft

    In Praise of Bob Dylan’s Narrative Strategies…
    and His Verbs

    By Tony Conniff  November 6, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Longstanding Love Affair of Cocaine and Surfing

    By New Books Network  November 6, 2020
    The Hub

    Here are the 2020 Kirkus Prize winners.

    By Rasheeda Saka  November 5, 2020
    The Hub

    And the host of the 71st National Book Awards is…

    By Literary Hub  November 5, 2020
    2020 Election

    Election Night in the Heart of the Capital: Proud Boys, Parties, and Protest

    By Timothy Denevi  November 5, 2020
    Family History

    Between the Cane Rows: Principles of Making in the Cycles of Power

    By Patrick Rosal  November 5, 2020
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