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

https://apple.news/A5NwJBdvWScO7wEcwWeLvXA

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