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/

 

How Gen Z and millennials in the US have an unlikely love affair with their local libraries

Why might Gen Z and millennials – sometimes characterised as attention-addled homebodies – still see value in trips to the public library?

https://apple.news/A2QF9iNlyQhycUu_H507Wwg

I BOUGHT THIS YESTERDAY. On a lark. I liked the look of it. And the blurbs. I couldn’t sleep last night. I got up and read the first 30 pages. It’s as exciting as when you got a record album that changed your life. It’s a huge deal. After I got it home I noticed that it won the Pulitzer Prize. There you go. 

 

FIVE LITERARY CRITICS enlivening the art of book criticism

Some say that literary critics have lost touch with modern readers—but not us. From Zadie Smith to George Saunders, these critics continue to refresh the form

https://apple.news/AeoPxMrE3RGy5dVji1nh3MQ

 

In the Library with Phoebe Tonkin 

https://youtu.be/gnYhA18TuYA?si=x6gjF4Cn21DsqGF4

 

Japan's best-selling living novelist: Haruki Murakami at 75

https://apple.news/AtX1Ew9I_S0Ct3xd4bv6byA

 

‘Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.’

 —Richard Feynman