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    Sheltering

    Sheltering: Alexandra Chang on Fictionalizing Your Life

    By The Virtual Book Channel  March 31, 2020
    The Hub

    Jenna Bush Hager has announced her April 2020 book club pick.

    By Dan Sheehan  March 31, 2020
    The Hub

    The first full trailer for Hulu’s Normal People is extremely sexy.

    By Emily Temple  March 31, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Dolly Parton is going to read us all bedtime stories.

    By Jonny Diamond  March 31, 2020
    The Hub

    Tomie dePaola, beloved author and illustrator of Strega Nona, has died at 85.

    By Emily Temple  March 31, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    In a Pandemic, How Do You Make the Case for an Art Emergency?

    By Corinne Segal  March 31, 2020
    Poets

    Remembering Mark Strand: Lover of Voicemails, Roaster of Chickens, Writer of Poems

    By Rebecca Dinerstein Knight  March 31, 2020
    Book Covers

    The 14 Best Book Covers
    of March

    By Emily Temple  March 31, 2020
    5 Questions

    Samantha Irby Absolutely Does Not Want Michelle Obama to Read Her Book

    By Literary Hub  March 31, 2020
    The Craft of Writing

    C Pam Zhang on Writing in a Time of Grief

    By C Pam Zhang  March 31, 2020
    Cooking

    Ode to the Lemon Tree and
    All It Provides

    By Meir Shalev  March 31, 2020
    The Hub

    Soothe your troubled soul with the only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf’s voice.

    By Dan Sheehan  March 30, 2020
    Rekindled

    Rekindled: Breanne Fahs on Women’s Rage and the Art of the Manifesto

    By The Virtual Book Channel  March 30, 2020
    Sheltering

    Sheltering: Deb Olin Unferth on Personal Loss vs. Collective Grief

    By The Virtual Book Channel  March 30, 2020
    The Hub

    The £10,000 Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses will be shared by the finalists.

    By Katie Yee  March 30, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Powell’s bookstore brings back laid-off workers to fulfill online orders.

    By Jonny Diamond  March 30, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Some useful vintage advertisements and posters that encourage social distancing.

    By Emily Temple  March 30, 2020
    The Hub

    Here are the 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners.

    By Katie Yee  March 30, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    A Few 19th-Century Parlor Games to Amuse You While You’re Stuck at Home

    By Emily Temple  March 30, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Bookstores Serve Ideas and People: In That Way They Are Essential

    By Lucy Kogler  March 30, 2020
    Capitalism

    A Brief History of the Acceptable High School T-Shirts of the Late 1980s

    By Susan McCarty  March 30, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Comfort Food in Uncomfortable Times

    By Michael Wiegers  March 30, 2020
    Artificial Intelligence

    Can We Actually Teach Artificial Intelligence Empathy?

    By Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips  March 30, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    To Expand the Moral Imagination in the Confines of Quarantine

    By Philip Metres  March 30, 2020
    Politics

    Alli Warren Translates Five Books into Poems

    By Alli Warren  March 30, 2020
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