The immigrants to Britain and North America who speak the island's creolized language have usually discouraged their children and grandchildren from using it, believing that complete command of proper English was necessary for the young people to get ahead. Now many of those grown-up children and grandchildren are reconnecting with Patwa. - BBC
"A slow-burning literary success who won multiple awards in (Asia) and Europe, Han is the first Asian woman and the first South Korean writer to win the Nobel literature prize." - AP
The Swedish Academy is not here to tell you what writers you might like. Greatness is not the same as popularity. It may even be the opposite of popularity... Great writers are the ones who matter whether you read them or not. - The New York Times
Speaking by videolink from New York to the Lviv BookForum, the author revealed that the book will be a trilogy of novellas about "the three worlds in my life: India and England and America. And they all in some way consider the idea of an ending." - The Guardian
Regular weeding — librarians' term for removing from collections books that are out-of-date, damaged, or too seldom checked out to be worth shelf space — is standard practice. Some officials have started using the process to remove books about race or LGBTQ issues, and courts will soon weigh in. - The New York Times
“The number of independent bookstores has grown by 200 from 2022 to 2023, and the number has more than doubled between 2016 and 2023.” Then there’s the internet - for indies. - Salon
Lore Segal, at 96, “still approaches everything in life and her writing in the same way: as something interesting, something to be dealt with as directly as one can manage.” - The New York Times
“My husband tells me, ‘You are a nicer person in Hindi than you are in English.’ I believe him. For everything that English has granted me, it has also been the language of competition and of getting ahead in life.” - LitHub
Fifty-four Academy Awards and 267 nominations. That’s the sort of concrete impact the Black List has had since launching in 2005 as Hollywood insiders’ go-to index of emerging screenwriters. It now hopes to do the same for publishing. - Wired
"In yet another major win for freedom to read advocates, a federal judge has ordered the Crawford County Public Library in Arkansas to stop segregating books deemed inappropriate by some local residents into special 'social sections,' and to return the books to general circulation." - Publishers Weekly
In 2022, fewer than half of adults reported reading a book in the past 12 months. Furthermore, only 38 percent reported reading fiction or short stories, a rate that has fallen a worrisome 17 percent over the past ten years. But digging into the data, I also found reasons for hope. - National Endowment for the Arts
An oral history: current and former Post staffers, along with people involved with the incidents in question, talk about how they come up with the headlines, reveal which ones were too much even for the Post, and flesh out the stories behind them. Yes, this includes "Headless Body in Topless Bar." - Esquire
