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Book Review: ‘The Secret Public: How Music Moved Queer Culture From the Margins to the Mainstream,’ by Jon Savage

What's it like to be famous? These 13 new celebrity memoirs may clue you in

Edward Gorey’s “Great Simple Theory About Art” is essential reading for writers.

Mac Barnett Named New National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature

Prison Library Support Network Volunteers Meet Incarcerated Information Needs with Grassroots Reference by Mail Service

Publisher Profile: Star Bright Books

The Kings Head by Kelly Frost review – jocular story of street-fighting sisters

💙 Dolly. "Participating children receive one free book by mail each month from birth until age five, regardless of income."

Allison Epstein's 'Fagin the Thief' gives the Oliver Twist character a backstory

Inky and Determined: In Praise of Writers Who Self-Publish

Unwin Award for Nonfiction Shortlist Announced | Book Pulse

7 Books About a Prophecy That Changes Everything

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Striking a Balance: The Child Narrator in Memoir and Personal Essays

10 Banned Books by Black Authors to Read for Black History Month

‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism

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Emily J. Smith: I Allowed the Writing To Be Terrible

M Is for Mortality: Lessons from Edward Gorey on His Hundredth Birthday

American Library Association Establishes Public Supporter Program

A Centenary Tribute to Edward Gorey

What to Read Before and After Seeing Art Spiegelman: Disaster is my Muse

Ben Okri: ‘Is A Tale of Two Cities the greatest English novel? Meet me in a pub to discuss’

In 'Show Don't Tell,' Curtis Sittenfeld even treats cringey characters with humanity

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us...There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another..." — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

Min Jin Lee’s Indelible Twentieth-Century Women

Interview: David Levering Lewis on ‘The Stained Glass Window’ and His Reading Life

First known cookbook by a Black American woman gets new edition 160 years later https://www.npr.org/2025/02/20/nx-s1-5299983/first-cookbook-by-black-american-woman-malinda-russell #cookbooks

Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities

Announcing The 2025 PEN America Grant Winners

“This book would not exist if McGlue had not found me”: An Interview with Ottessa Moshfegh

#peoplehavethepower

The Café With No Name by Robert Seethaler review – lost souls in postwar Vienna

Andrew Garfield, Percival Everett and Attica Locke among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists

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A Soundtrack to a Fabulous Memoir Crackling With Music

New novel asks: How much can a male friendship take?

Another good reason to switch to Bookshop.org and support independents. lithub.com/next-week-am...

A Tiny Tomato a Day Keeps Writerly Woes at Bay

Searching for Missing Persons in “Waiting for the Long Night Moon”

Eight Independent Publishers Form Cooperative to Share Resources, Cut Costs

Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor review – an SF master moves into the mainstream

The Bangles' memoir retraces the band's steps of walking like Egyptians, meeting Prince and making history

7 Books Reflecting on The Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II

Reading Janet Malcolm in Yorkville

The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer and Rachel Aviv Win Polk Awards