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    Life in a Pandemic

    Literary Echoes of the Last Great Depression

    By Jason Boog  April 3, 2020
    The Hub

    Friend of booksellers James Patterson will donate $500,000 to indie bookstores.

    By Jessie Gaynor  April 3, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Days Without Name: On Time in the Time of Coronavirus

    By Heidi Pitlor  April 3, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Meet Zimmy, the Quarantine Dog (Or, an Insane Response to an Insane Time)

    By Chris Offutt  April 3, 2020
    Nature

    What the Beaver Can Teach Us About Innovative Conservation

    By Ryan Bradley  April 3, 2020
    Guns

    Once Upon a Time, the NRA Stood Up to the Gun Industry

    By Frank Smyth  April 3, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    How to Organize Your
    Home Office

    By Ronda Kaysen and Michelle Higgins  April 3, 2020
    Free Speech

    The Time Giuseppe Verdi Battled *Actual* Censorship

    By Wallis Wilde-Menozzi  April 3, 2020
    Copper Canyon Live

    Introducing Copper Canyon’s Launch Party Livestream

    By The Virtual Book Channel  April 2, 2020
    The Hub

    Mary Poppins is launching a children’s book podcast.

    By Aaron Robertson  April 2, 2020
    Funny

    Little Women pulled a Game of Thrones.

    By Aaron Robertson  April 2, 2020
    Rekindled

    Rekindled: Andrew Altschul in Conversation With Ellen Meeropol

    By The Virtual Book Channel  April 2, 2020
    Sheltering

    Sheltering: Emily St. John Mandel on ‘Predicting’ the Pandemic

    By The Virtual Book Channel  April 2, 2020
    The Hub

    This livestream of a bird library is perfect quarantine viewing for you and a cat.

    By Corinne Segal  April 2, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Mission Creek Underground: The Musical Storytelling of Spectral Snake

    By The Virtual Book Channel  April 2, 2020
    The Hub

    The 2020 International Booker Prize Shortlist is mostly women (again).

    By Emily Temple  April 2, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    The Wolves of Stanislav: An Improbably True Parable for the Pandemic Age

    By Paul Auster  April 2, 2020
    On Technology

    Surveillance Capitalism and the Internet of Things

    By Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge  April 2, 2020
    Art

    Finding, Hiding, Hoarding: On Making Art From Trash

    By Nick Flynn  April 2, 2020
    Journalism

    Women in War: On Great Correspondents Past and Present

    By Jacqueline Winspear  April 2, 2020
    Language

    Foxed, Fuddled, Swallowed a Hare, and Other Words for “Drunk”

    By Literary Hub  April 2, 2020
    Russia

    The Writing Conference That Ended in a Russian Police Station

    By Jessica Anthony  April 2, 2020
    The American Midwest

    The Irresistible Dream of a Prepper’s Life

    By Phil Christman  April 2, 2020
    The Antibody Reading Series

    Antibody: Starring Andrew Altschul, Rachel Lyon, and Michael J. Seidlinger

    By The Antibody Reading Series  April 1, 2020
    The Hub

    Here are the longlists for the Best Translated Book Awards.

    By Katie Yee  April 1, 2020
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