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The late Truman Capote left behind a prodigious amount of novel drafts, New Journalism, and frenemies when he died in 1984. He also, you might not be surprised to learn, left behind a lot of tchotc…
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Our friends at n+1 are back with their annual pre-yuletide gift. Bookmatch, the highly bespoke literary quiz, pairs readers with a custom-made syllabus based on their answers to a dozen or so quirk…
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In 1836, Charles Dickens hooked the good people of England on a story about a traveling men’s group. Published over two years in 19 installments, The Pickwick Papers launched a craze for seri…
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Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture—together with the KSE Foundation, the Ukrainian Book Institute, and the International Book Arsenal Festival—is developing a grant program to aid Ukrainian publis…
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An open letter published today on The New Statesman and signed by dozens of artists, authors, actors, politicians, and public thinkers, asserts that, in case you were wondering, “Sally Rooney…
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This week, the New York Public Library announced its fresh class of Cullman fellows. The 15 gifted academics and writers were selected from a pool of over 800 applicants. They represent half a doze…
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Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, the seismic family saga you couldn’t avoid in the early aughts, is finally getting a screen adaptation. In 2012, Noah Baumbach and Scott Rudin attempted to lasso that late modernist moon for a much-hyped HBO mini-series
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As the internet noted earlier this week—and Claire Guinan at Jezebel observed yesterday—Vice President JD Vance may have a plagiarism problem. (Among his many others.) On Tuesday, the man with the most hillbilly blood on his hands announced a new
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You may know her as a Grammy winning pop star, best at baiting hooks that keep Barbie in a trance. But these days you’re just as likely to know Dua Lipa for her second job: bookfluencer. The British impresario founded
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The Newberry Library in Chicago is scouting transcribers to demystify its handwritten collection. As Dan Kelly wrote in yesterday’s Chicago, the archive’s hunt for “living Rosetta stones” first kicked off in 2013, when the Newberry launched a campaign to transcribe