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‘It’s a snowball effect’: the gen Z niche reading event making waves in New York

Jul 05 2024: Reading nights and avant-garde literary groups are rapidly emerging as platforms for younger generations to foster community and creatively share personal narratives – and one new series is making waves in New York.

Literary events are on the rise across the US, with...

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Small press community slowly builds back after SPD failure

Jul 02 2024: A little more than three months after Small Press Distribution abruptly closed, leaving some 400 independent presses without a trade distributor, publishers and distributors alike are moving forward even as damage assessment continues. Approximately 25% of the stranded ...

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ALA 2024: Librarians rally for the right to read

Jul 01 2024: Freedom to read tops the list of librarians’ priorities, and the American Library Association’s 2024 conference emphasized the existential threats posed by book bans and the populist undermining of public institutions and trust. A Rally for the Right to Read, panels to ...

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Ismail Kadare, 88, dies; His novels brought Albania’s plight to the world

Jul 01 2024: Ismail Kadare, the Albanian novelist and poet who single-handedly wrote his isolated Balkan homeland onto the map of world literature, creating often dark, allegorical works that obliquely criticized the country’s totalitarian state, died on Monday in Tirana, the ...

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Ismail Kadare, 88, dies; His novels brought Albania’s plight to the world

Jul 01 2024: Ismail Kadare, the Albanian novelist and poet who single-handedly wrote his isolated Balkan homeland onto the map of world literature, creating often dark, allegorical works that obliquely criticized the country’s totalitarian state, died on Monday in Tirana, the ...

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The quiet crisis facing U.S. public libraries

Jun 28 2024: According to most recent data from the Institute of Museum and Library services annual Public Library Survey, released earlier this month, gate counts at U.S. public libraries (that is, in-person visits) rose in 2022 over 2021. Overall, however, physical library visits—...

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Authors against book bans officially launches

Jun 26 2024: After announcing their formation earlier this year, Authors Against Book Bans (AABB), a nascent organization of creators committed to defending the freedom to read, announced its official launch this week. In a release, reps said that the group of “writers, illustrators...

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‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books

Jun 25 2024: When, one Thursday morning last winter, I arrived at Battle library in west Reading, the library manager, Terry Curran, was sitting at the front desk writing a quiz. “It’s not a hard quiz,” said Curran, who was worried about attendance. “Often just the same two ladies ...

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