Robyn Schiff, "Information Desk". (lithub.com)
“The Small Press World is About to Fall Apart.” On the Collapse of Small Press Distribution (lithub.com)
Please see also: beehaw.org/post/12924678
Megan Fernandes, "Drive" (lithub.com)
[Ohter] A.I. Chatbot, Will You Be My Friend? Seven Stories of Robot-Human Relationships (lithub.com)
“Annie Bot” author Sierra Greer Recommends Work by Richard Powers, Isaac Asimov, Jessie Ren Marshall, and More
The Stories We Tell Our Sons About Becoming Men (lithub.com)
Against Disruption: On the Bulletpointization of Books (lithub.com)
I’m not saying that all self-help is bad. There’s always been an audience for short and snappy self-improvement books (there’s a reason why there are only 7 Habits, not 70), and that’s just fine. But I do worry about a larger phenomenon that I’ll call the bulletpointification of books and media....
How to Comment on Social Media (lithub.com)
Read novelist Lana Bastašić’s blazing response to yet another act of literary censorship. (lithub.com)
TIL most ancient texts were read out loud and it was strange if someone read to themself (lithub.com)
Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphics, manuscripts in Aramaic, Arabic, and Hebrew, the illuminated Christian Gospels, the Talmud, the Koran—with these forms and collections of writing came the expectation that a person would read them out loud and would, in a manner of speaking, conjure their reality. In his book A...
Massoud Hayoun on What It Means to Identify as Both Jewish and Arab (lithub.com)
Massoud Hayoun on What It Means to Identify as Both Jewish and Arab (lithub.com)
Massoud Hayoun on What It Means to Identify as Both Jewish and Arab (lithub.com)
En Anglais : Les 138 meilleures couvertures de livres de 2023 (lithub.com)
Pour la huitième fois consécutive, j’ai le plaisir de vous présenter les meilleures couvertures de livres de l’année, choisies par certains des meilleurs designers de couvertures de livres du secteur....
The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2023 (lithub.com)
The 38 Best Books We Read in 2023 (lithub.com)
Censoring Imagination: Why Prisons Ban Fantasy and Science Fiction (lithub.com)
Archived version without paywall
Censoring Imagination: Why Prisons Ban Fantasy and Science Fiction (lithub.com)
In 2009 I was working with the prison book program in Asheville, North Carolina when I got a request for shapeshifting. I was shocked and thought it was funny, until I came to realize esoteric inte…
40 Books to Understand Palestine (lithub.com)
In the last 38 days, more than 11,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. Another 190 have been killed by Israeli army fire and settler violence in the West Bank. Tens of t…
Gaza’s main public library has been destroyed (lithub.com)
Authorities in Gaza City have condemned what they say was the deliberate destruction of the city’s main public library by Israeli forces after finding the building in ruins while a ceasefire was be…
Belal Jadallah, the “godfather of Palestinian journalism,” has been killed in Gaza. (lithub.com)
Belal Jadallah, one of the most beloved and respected journalists in Gaza, was killed yesterday by Israeli shelling. Known locally as “the godfather of Palestinian journalists,” Jadallah was …
Missouri library buys extra copies of “Bang Like a Porn Star” for “research.” (lithub.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/4661476...
Missouri library buys extra copies of “Bang Like a Porn Star” for “research.” (lithub.com)
The St. Charles County library system recently bought additional copies of a challenged book, Bang Like a Porn Star: Sex Tips from the Pros, because “committee members need more copies to conduct a formal review.” Suuuuure guys....
Not Everyone Agreed with Albert Einstein—Including Children, Schrödinger, and Heisenberg (lithub.com)
On the False Promise of Climate Fiction (lithub.com)
I’m curious what people think of this article with regard to the solarpunk literary movement, past present and future.
Canada’s Giller [Literary] Prize event interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters [twice]. (lithub.com)
