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• Talking to Kids About Racism, Early and Often

  03-06-2020 14:35 via nytimes.com
  
  These books can help start the conversation.
  
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• As Audiobook Market Grows, Narrators of Color Find Their Voice

  03-06-2020 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Publishers are increasingly seeking out audio talent that reflects the race and experience of the books’ authors and characters. But what constitutes a black, Latino or Asian voice?
  
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• In ‘Surviving Autocracy,’ Masha Gessen Tells Us to Face the Facts

  03-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Gessen surveys the American political landscape in a style that is methodical and direct, relying on pointed observations instead of baroque hyperbole.
  
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• Two things guide Barbara Ehrenreich: anger and curiosity. "I live for surprises”

  03-06-2020 04:32 via newrepublic.com
  
  Two things guide Barbara Ehrenreich: anger and curiosity. "I live for surprises”
  
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• The key to understanding the modern human mind is found in the ancient hunter myths. Or so says Roberto Calasso

  03-06-2020 04:32 via washingtonpost.com
  
  The key to understanding the modern human mind is found in the ancient hunter myths. Or so says Roberto Calasso
  
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• Literary culture is tactile, embedded in our social environment. When cities go quiet, and intellectual life happens remotely, much is lost

  03-06-2020 04:32 via vqronline.org
  Literary culture is tactile, embedded in our social environment. When cities go quiet, and intellectual life happens remotely, much is lost
  
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• Two things guide Barbara Ehrenreich. One is anger, the other is curiosity. "I live for surprises"

  03-06-2020 03:01 via newrepublic.com
  
  Two things guide Barbara Ehrenreich. One is anger, the other is curiosity. "I live for surprises"
  
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• The key to understanding the modern human mind is found in ancient hunter myths. Or so says Roberto Calasso

  03-06-2020 03:01 via washingtonpost.com
  
  The key to understanding the modern human mind is found in ancient hunter myths. Or so says Roberto Calasso
  
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• Literary culture is tactile, embedded in our social environment. When our cities go quiet, and intellectual life happens remotely, much is lost

  03-06-2020 03:01 via vqronline.org
  Literary culture is tactile, embedded in our social environment. When our cities go quiet, and intellectual life happens remotely, much is lost
  
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• Robb Forman Dew, Novelist Who Wrote of Families, Dies at 73

  02-06-2020 22:38 via nytimes.com
  
  Her well-regarded books chronicled day-to-day life, spurning fast-paced gimmicks in favor of carefully built portraits.
  
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• Review: Streaming Consciousness Floods ‘A School for Fools’

  02-06-2020 21:06 via nytimes.com
  
  The Belarus Free Theater’s livestreaming, mind-bending adaptation of Sasha Sokolov’s poetic novel assumes the bifocal eye-view of a divided self.
  
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• These Books Can Help You Explain Racism and Protest to Your Kids

  02-06-2020 19:12 via nytimes.com
  
  The conversation about race needs to start early and keep happening.
  
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• With These Literary Puzzlers, the Game’s Afoot (and in Hand)

  02-06-2020 16:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Need something to occupy your mind and your time? Consider two book-themed diversions that grab your attention using post or pixel.
  
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• Literature Review Examines SARS-CoV-2 Prevention Methods - Contagionlive.com

  02-06-2020 11:05 via contagionlive.com
  
  Literature Review Examines SARS-CoV-2 Prevention Methods  Contagionlive.com
  
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• Using scientific literature to develop a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine - Drug Target Review

  02-06-2020 11:02 via drugtargetreview.com
  
  Using scientific literature to develop a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine  Drug Target Review
  
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• When the Price of Freedom Is Detention, Frostbite and Amputation

  02-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Between Everything and Nothing,” by Joe Meno, recounts the harrowing quest by two Ghanaian men to gain asylum in North America.
  
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• Wayétu Moore Escapes a Civil War in Liberia. In America, She Encounters a New Kind of Danger.

  02-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Dragons, the Giant, the Women” is a migration memoir of separations, relocations and reunions.
  
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• The Pill That Makes Life Shine Brighter, Fallout Be Damned

  02-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Ornamental,” by the Colombian writer Juan Cárdenas, smashes together art, science and philosophy in a compact, fast-moving novel.
  
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• The Brilliant Astronomer Who Devised New Tactics to Fight Anti-Gay Bias

  02-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In 1957, Franklin Kameny was fired from a government job for being gay. His bold fight against bias, Eric Cervini shows in “The Deviant’s War,” inspired a movement.
  
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• New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From Computers to Mushrooms

  02-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
  
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• In ‘Exciting Times,’ Echoes of Sally Rooney, but With a Queer Twist

  02-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Naoise Dolan’s debut follows a young Irishwoman as she becomes involved in the lives of Hong Kong’s upper crust.
  
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• How Shakespeare Paperbacks Made Me Want to Be a Writer

  02-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The more you read, the more you realize Shakespeare is woven into the fiber of the English language.
  
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• Birds Do It. People, Too. Is Migration Simply Natural for All Species?

  02-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In her latest book, “The Next Great Migration,” the science journalist Sonia Shah traces the global movements of humans today to age-old patterns in other species.
  
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• A Terrorist Attack Sparks the Plot of Megha Majumdar’s Powerful Debut Novel

  02-06-2020 06:37 via nytimes.com
  
  “A Burning” captures the political landscape of modern-day India through the lives of three characters.
  
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• The meaning of doubt. "Unbelief needs the believer’s reflecting gaze to better understand itself"

  02-06-2020 03:42 via commonwealmagazine.org
  The meaning of doubt. "Unbelief needs the believer’s reflecting gaze to better understand itself"
  
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• Caravan, a little magazine in India, analyzes the news with “adversarial politics.” Bring on the harassment, defamation suits, and sleepless nights

  02-06-2020 03:42 via vqronline.org
  Caravan, a little magazine in India, analyzes the news with “adversarial politics.” Bring on the harassment, defamation suits, and sleepless nights
  
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• Do aphorisms convey wisdom or merely impersonate it? For Plato, they were enigmatic evasions — the scattered utterances of clever men

  02-06-2020 03:42 via aeon.co
  
  Do aphorisms convey wisdom or merely impersonate it? For Plato, they were enigmatic evasions — the scattered utterances of clever men
  
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• The Hammer Spotlights Elections + Literature - NBC Southern California

  02-06-2020 01:06 via nbclosangeles.com
  
  The Hammer Spotlights Elections + Literature  NBC Southern California
  
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• New online platform provides opportunities for student literature evangelists in Mexico - Adventist News Network

  02-06-2020 00:30 via news.adventist.org
  
  New online platform provides opportunities for student literature evangelists in Mexico  Adventist News Network
  
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• Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West

  01-06-2020 23:37 via nytimes.com
  
  In his first installment of a new series on overlooked or under-read American writers, A.O. Scott, a critic at large for The New York Times, considers Wallace Stegner, the Western novelist who captured, and criticized, his region’s individualistic spirit.
  
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• How You Should Read Coronavirus Studies, or Any Science Paper

  01-06-2020 23:16 via nytimes.com
  
  Published scientific research, like any piece of writing, is a peculiar literary genre.
  
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• Arunachal Pradesh literature Society celebrates 81st birth anniversary of late Lummer Dai - Arunachal24

  01-06-2020 20:31 via arunachal24.in
  
  Arunachal Pradesh literature Society celebrates 81st birth anniversary of late Lummer Dai  Arunachal24
  
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• Brookline students named in 20th annual Massachusetts Letters About Literature Awards - Wicked Local

  01-06-2020 19:19 via brookline.wickedlocal.com
  Brookline students named in 20th annual Massachusetts Letters About Literature Awards  Wicked Local
  
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• Children's Literature Faculty Reading - TheRoanoker.com - Roanoker

  01-06-2020 19:11 via theroanoker.com
  
  Children's Literature Faculty Reading - TheRoanoker.com  Roanoker
  
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• 26th Annual Francelia Butler Student Conference on Children’s Literature - Roanoker

  01-06-2020 19:11 via theroanoker.com
  
  26th Annual Francelia Butler Student Conference on Children’s Literature  Roanoker
  
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• Publishers Sue Internet Archive Over National Emergency Library

  01-06-2020 18:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette and Wiley accused the nonprofit of piracy for making over 1 million books free online during the coronavirus outbreak.
  
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• Publishers Sue Internet Archive Over Free E-Books

  01-06-2020 18:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette and Wiley accused the nonprofit of piracy for making over 1 million books free online.
  
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• Tales From Home, For Home

  01-06-2020 17:52 via nytimes.com
  
  While you’re stuck at home, a selection of novels will let you hang out in someone else’s, whether it’s a mansion, a lighthouse or an apartment building.
  
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• 2020 WAN Awards entry: Urban Literature - SD Atelier Design & Planning - World Architecture News

  01-06-2020 14:59 via worldarchitecturenews.com
  
  2020 WAN Awards entry: Urban Literature - SD Atelier Design & Planning  World Architecture News
  
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• Texas history: Reading Mexican American literature as history - Alice Echo News-Journal

  01-06-2020 14:00 via alicetx.com
  Texas history: Reading Mexican American literature as history  Alice Echo News-Journal
  
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• Fall Is Now Jam-Packed for Book Publishers. That Could Be a Problem.

  01-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Books scheduled for release this spring and summer are now on track for fall, when authors will be fighting for attention in the midst of a presidential election and an ongoing crisis.
  
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• A Filmmaker Put Away for Tax Fraud Takes Us Inside a British Prison

  01-06-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “A Bit of a Stretch,” Chris Atkins writes about the nine months he spent at Wandsworth, one of the largest, oldest and unruliest prisons in Britain.
  
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• JK Rowling issues apology after tweet goes wrong - The Indian Express

  01-06-2020 09:55 via indianexpress.com
  
  JK Rowling issues apology after tweet goes wrong  The Indian Express
  
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• Include oral tradition literature in schools, says KDCA Women's Council - New Straits Times

  01-06-2020 08:32 via nst.com.my
  
  Include oral tradition literature in schools, says KDCA Women's Council  New Straits Times
  
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• GLOBAL INTERNET LITERATURE MARKET OUTLOOK 2020: INDUSTRY SEGMENTED BY EMERGING TECHNOLGY, VARIOUS SERVICES, ADVANCEMENT, MASSIVE GROWTH AND GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS TILL 2026 - Cole of Duty

  01-06-2020 05:51 via coleofduty.com
  GLOBAL INTERNET LITERATURE MARKET OUTLOOK 2020: INDUSTRY SEGMENTED BY EMERGING TECHNOLGY, VARIOUS SERVICES, ADVANCEMENT, MASSIVE GROWTH AND GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS TILL 2026  Cole of Duty
  
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• What was it like to sit in the Thomaskirche in 1723 and hear Bach’s music the way that Bach heard it?

  01-06-2020 03:38 via neh.gov
  What was it like to sit in the Thomaskirche in 1723 and hear Bach’s music the way that Bach heard it?
  
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• Lydia Davis is a writer for whom the subject is always, on some level, writing itself

  01-06-2020 03:38 via sydneyreviewofbooks.com
  
  Lydia Davis is a writer for whom the subject is always, on some level, writing itself
  
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• After the pandemic. Bill McKibben, Noam Chomsky, and others try forecasting a dark future

  01-06-2020 03:38 via lithub.com
  
  After the pandemic. Bill McKibben, Noam Chomsky, and others try forecasting a dark future
  
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• Winner of world's largest children's literature award must wait until next year to collect prize - inews

  31-05-2020 23:37 via inews.co.uk
  
  Winner of world's largest children's literature award must wait until next year to collect prize  inews
  
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• Karen Blumenthal, 61, Dies; Journalist Turned Young-Adult Author

  31-05-2020 19:02 via nytimes.com
  
  After many years at The Wall Street Journal, she began writing books about the social forces that gave rise to hot-button issues in American culture.
  
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