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Stimulus package will boost German bookstores; Serendipity Literary Agency celebrates two decades championing Black authors; remembering Geoffrey Nunberg; and other stories.
Swati Khurana uses the Instant Pot as a metaphor for flash fiction; book box subscription company Literati launches five new virtual book clubs; Sarah M. Sala reflects on poetry as a call to action; and other stories.
Katy Waldman observes a “reflexivity trap” in contemporary fiction; Black Book Designers launches website; Aimee Nezhukumatathil imagines life as a vampire squid; and other stories.
Jami Attenberg advises against idealizing resilience; Fatima Bhutto reflects on the young people who join extremist movements; Aja Romano write about the ongoing cultural reckoning with H. P. Lovecraft’s racism; and other stories.
The New York Public Library seeks audio recordings about life during the pandemic; writers and readers plan Fahrenheit 451 read-a-thon; Mieko Kawakami advocates for a feminist future; and other stories.
Literary leaders reflect on diversity in publishing; HBO begins casting for Between the World and Me; Madeleine Ryan reflects on writing a protagonist with autism; and other stories.
USA Today includes several writers on its list of one hundred “Women of the Century”; Yaa Gyasi on writing a looser second novel; Elisa Gabbert on the essay form; and other stories.
Alisson Wood reflects on the challenges of writing about trauma; Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law discuss how most criminal justice reform falls short; Alexander Larman reports on the decline of British secondhand bookstores; and other stories.
Brandon Taylor reflects on Real Life being longlisted for the Booker Prize; A. O. Scott writes in praise of Edward P. Jones; Southside Weekly profiles Chicago poet Tara Betts; and other stories.
The effects of social media on the creative process—although it can help writers identify and pay attention to the quotidian moments of their lives, does it siphon off their storytelling energy?
