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Eve L. Ewing and Evan Narcisse reflect on writing Black superheroes; literary community gears up for Independent Bookstore Day tomorrow; Chelsea Leu writes against the optimization of reading; and other stories.
Concentrate spotlights poetry collective by and for women of color in Michigan; Margaret F. Chen recounts her self-publishing experience; Ron Charles writes about the piecemeal database management at major online book retailers; and other stories.
Alexandria Juarez celebrates literary fan fiction; Jhumpa Lahiri reflects on translating her own work; Dennis James Sweeney discusses whiteness and loneliness; and other stories.
Entertainment Weekly shares an interview with the late Eric Jerome Dickey; Ada Limón writes about her relationship to her body under lockdown; Michelle Zauner discusses grieving her mother on the page and in music; and other stories.
Book Industry Charitable Foundation seeks author donations for matching fund; Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris write about how the pandemic has affected book discovery; Ravynn Stringfield finds a community of Black women writing and studying Black girl fantasy; and other stories.
E. J. Koh, author of the memoir The Magical Language of Others (Tin House, 2020), gives her take on what the city of Seattle offers to readers and writers.
Profits from pandemic anthology go to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation; Julia Skinner writes about how libraries evolved during the 1918 influenza pandemic; Sarah Kortemeier spotlights exquisite artist’s books; and other stories.
The National Coalition Against Censorship calls attention to bills that seek to limit teaching on social justice; Zando has made its first acquisition; romance writers and industry members discuss the evolution of the genre; and other stories.
Brandon Taylor writes about Black Horror on and off the screen; the New York Times reports on the posthumous publication of Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground; Mark Athitakis critiques “healing” literature; and other stories.
Copy editors are adapting to increasing cultural awareness of racial injustice and new approaches to representing identity on the page. How can their work can help or hinder social change?
