These 12 Stunning Autobiographies Will Leave You in Wonder (from ‘Vogue’):

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The experts: librarians on 20 easy, enjoyable ways to read more brilliant books

Do you love reading – but all too often find yourself just scrolling through your phone or watching TV? Here is how to get lost in literature again

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Call Oregon's Poetry Hotline to Hear a New Poem Every Day This Month

The hotline, created by the state's poet laureate, has already received thousands of callers

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What Joan Didion’s broken Hollywood can teach us about our own

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-08/joan-didion-play-it-as-it-lays-no-1-best-hollywood-books

Two nights before the attack, Salman Rushdie dreamed he was stabbed onstage

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‘The Sympathizer’ is a tense black comedy that’s also a moving story about friendship

HBO’s adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning post-Vietnam novel is the portrait of a divided people and a divided person.

https://apple.news/AyB18IeBmQOG3sOOEI9IOUA

 

‘Teenagers are exhausting’: Teacher and author Carol Atherton on why her profession deserves more respect

Amy Fleming

The Head of English at a Lincolnshire secondary school discusses the crisis in education and her mission to make literature live for a new generation

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/05/teenagers-are-exhausting-teacher-and-author-carol-atherton-on-why-her-profession-deserves-more-respect

  

On the Lower East Side, a corporate 'fixer' honors his Jewish roots with a unique, NYC-centric bookstore

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The Davenport Sisters Are The Founders Of The First Black Food Bookstore

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‘I’d love a scathing review’: novelist Percival Everett on American Fiction and rewriting Huckleberry Finn

David Shariatmadari

His work triumphed at the Oscars, but the Booker-shortlisted author isn’t interested in acclaim. He talks to the Guardian about race, taking on Mark Twain and why there’s nothing worse than preaching to the choir

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/06/id-love-a-scathing-review-novelist-percival-everett-on-american-fiction-and-rewriting-huckleberry-finn

 

How to shop in used-book stores: 14 tips from a bibliophile

Bring a flashlight and expect to get dirty. Michael Dirda, a connoisseur of used-book stores, shares his shopping tricks.

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If You Give a Kid a Notebook, He’s Going to Ask for Time to Write

John Schu is a best-selling author, a children’s librarian and a tireless evangelist for the power of a blank page.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/books/review/louder-than-hunger-john-schu.html?unlocked_article_code=1.h00.3Hve.EcLBjJN_cSe0&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ugrp=u

 

A very bad year for press freedom 

Russia’s year-long detention of Evan Gershkovich is one part of a very grim picture for journalism.

https://www.vox.com/24115085/press-freedom-russia-israel-gaza-war-global

Here’s the brand new cityReader #69. I’m late putting this one out. (It always puts the second page first. You can enlarge the pages with your fingers.  Tap them.)

What Libraries Risk When They Go Digital

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HE’S JUST IN A SMALL DIVINITY SCHOOL in the early pages I’m in now. It’s around 1960; he’s maybe 20. It’s inspiring to read about his focus and determination. Gandhi is an influence. Injustice is what drives him though. 

COFFEE SHOP WINDOW right now. Cold outside.

 

 

He didn’t know what a sonnet was. Now he’s won a major poetry prize.


Ajibola Tolase has been awarded the Cave Canem Prize, putting him in a storied literary lineage

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/03/20/cave-canem-2024-ajibola-tolase/

 

An Obama campaign staffer stars in the shimmering autobiographical novel ‘Great Expectations’ 

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-03-18/great-expectations-vinson-cunningham-obama-campaign

Jonathan Kozol Fought School Inequality for Decades. Here’s One Final Plea.

With his latest, and last, book, the 87-year-old writer refuses false optimism.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/us/jonathan-kozol-school-inequality.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

Keith Haring brought art to the streets. Did he sell out in the process?


Brad Gooch’s new biography, ‘Radiant,’ captures the life of the iconoclastic artist who helped to define 1980s New York before dying at 31

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/03/12/radiant-keith-haring-biography-brad-gooch-review/

Calvin Trillin on the golden age of American reporting

A collection of work by a giant of New York journalism is both a joy and a lesson, particularly on objectivity and its limits

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/10/the-lede-review-calvin-trillin-new-yorker-times

 

Tracing the sprawling, complicated boundaries of ‘LatinoLand’


Marie Arana’s new book draws on her own experience and hundreds of interviews with others who have contemplated the meanings of Latino identity

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/03/08/latinoland-marie-arana-review/

Why Evan Gershkovich Is on the Cover of TIME

We set out to tell the story of his arrest and imprisonment, and its impact on his family, friends, and co-workers in the months to follow.

https://apple.news/AFtSt2bhkQeywr8ZQuyK_0Q

 

The Freaks Came Out to Write review – how the Village Voice changed American journalism

Tricia Romano’s entertaining oral history of the radical New York newspaper is an elegy to a rough and ready era of punch-

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/27/the-freaks-came-out-to-write-tricia-romano-review-how-the-village-voice-changed-american-journalism

LAST WEEK ONE MORNING on Chambers Street where I hold my sign a Black woman I’d seen before stopped and talked and as she left said Thank You and raised her arm high in her shiny black puffy coat and made a fist and exclaimed ‘Power To The People!’

 

ABOUT CARSON McCULLERS in the latest ‘New Yorker’. Photo by Richard Avedon. Makes you want to read her again. (The magazine is rumpled and a little rain-dropped from carrying it around.)

 

Émigrés Are Creating an Alternative China, One Bookstore at a Time

From Thailand to America, Chinese denied a safe public space for discussion in their home country have found hope in diaspora communities.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/23/business/chinese-emigres-bookstores-discussions.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

What's Behind the Return of Bookstores? Just when you thought that Amazon had finished off brick and mortar stores, booksellers are making comeback. Yes, there's lots of available, low-cost, retail space. But the retail outlets are filling a bigger need. 

https://apple.news/A4JJshn8SRniWkiFzV8TspQ

 

WHY THE MOST EDUCATED PEOPLE IN AMERICA FALL FOR ANTI-SEMITIC LIES

At Harvard and elsewhere, an old falsehood is capturing new minds.

https://apple.news/AtO3HLZvCT5-aSgyH7rlQTg

 

A SMART DISCUSSION. A VIDEO. 

https://youtu.be/VpHNoJzGoLA?si=c7YdSTklzy2yy_ge

Need a Reading Partner? Dog-Ear These Cool NYC Literary Gatherings and Book Clubs

Don’t forget your bookmark.

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The ‘Into the Wild’ Bus Was a Pilgrimage Site in the Wilderness. Can it Hold Up in a Museum?

The rusty coach where Chris McCandless spent his final days captured the imagination of people all over the world and inspired hundreds of seekers to make dangerous treks to reach it. Now a dedicated team of curators in Alaska have given it new life as a fascinating exhibit—one that tells the story not just of McCandless, but of modern Alaska.

https://apple.news/ALJRB92zPQuWmXGeTNGzXKQ

John Lewis finally gets a full biography
. Raymond Arsenault’s ‘John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community’ documents the life of the ‘Conscience of Congress’ in detail

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/01/26/john-lewis-biography-arsenault-review/

 

Cast as Criminals, America’s Librarians Rally to Their Own Defense

As libraries become battlegrounds in the nation’s culture wars, their allies are fighting to preserve access to their collections and keep themselves out of jail, or worse.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/us/book-bans-librarians.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

After Nearly Four Years, Manhattan's Poets House Reopens

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/94214-after-nearly-four-years-manhattan-s-poets-house-reopens.html

 

Why Ray Bradbury Only Wrote One Episode Of The Twilight Zone

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No one knows what ‘creative nonfiction’ is. 

That’s what makes it great.

In ‘The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting,’

Lee Gutkind traces the fuzzy boundaries.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/01/27/lee-gutkind-literary-fist-fighting-review/