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RESPONDING TO THE SECOND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION: Kim Kelly on the how-tos and DOs and DON’Ts of mutual aid • Madeline ffitch on direct action and survival work in the face of fascism • Josh Cook on what the publishing industry can do in the face of authoritarianism. | Lit Hub Politics

Henry Alford remembers how “Both Sides Now” catapulted Joni Mitchell to stardom. | Lit Hub Music

Markus Zusak on rescuing a dog and naming it after a character in his fiction: “My obvious advice for anyone approaching those animal websites is that whatever you do, if you’re only fifty percent sure, don’t look.” | Lit Hub Memoir

From Han Kang to Markus Zusak, these 22 new books are out now! | Lit Hub Reading Lists

“We subconsciously know that technology is really scary, and what’s scary about technology is how little we understand.” Jane Ciabattari talks to Sara Sligar about modernizing a Gothic cult classic. | Lit Hub In Conversation

Solitude, contemplation, and connection: Pico Iyer on lessons learned from monastic life. | Lit Hub Religion

“Cecile walked at a clip from the metro at Place de la République, late for her rendezvous.” Read from David Wright Faladé’s novel, The New Internationals. | Lit Hub Fiction

A raw, gritty novel of a young Afghan-German woman's year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery.

For fifty-five summers, the Community of Writers has brought poets and prose writers to the Sierra Nevada for two separate weeks of workshops, individual conferences, lectures, and panels. These programs assist writers to improve their craft, moving them closer to achieving their goals.

H.J. Tam considers Anthony Veasna So’s Afterparties, a collection that “asks readers to consider ways to be free without conscription—as Anthony would have it, free ‘to be indefinite, free to fuck off and be lost.’” | Public Books

Take a look inside Robert Caro’s personal library. | The Washington Post

With all the uncertainty around the TikTok ban, publishers contemplate a future without the mighty power of BookTok. | The New York Times

How censorship and book bans have suppressed Vietnam’s literary past and present. | Index on Censorship

David L. Ulin on Los Angeles and apocalyptic literature. | Los Angeles Times

Livia Gershon traces the etymology and usage of the word “pain.” | JSTOR Daily

A novel of art, desire, and time lost and regained, from Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano.

Read the short story collection Adam Johnson calls “A dozen little masterpieces of heart and longing and surprise.”

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