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A Look At The New Version Of The Chicago Manual Of Style

The 18th edition of the now-118-year-old guide has expanded sections on copyright, inclusive language (yes, it endorses the singular "they"), and how to credit non-text-based media and material generated by artificial intelligence. - Los Angeles Review of Books

New York Has Become A Hub Of Endangered Languages

Just the last few decades, hundreds of thousands of people speaking hundreds of languages have arrived in New York from heavily minority and Indigenous zones of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. At the very moment when languages worldwide are disappearing at an unprecedented rate, many of the last speakers are on the move. - LitHub

Midnight Book Release Parties Aren’t Just For Young People’s Lit Anymore

The phenomenon — in which bookstores open at midnight on a title's release date, so readers can get their fix as quickly as possible — started with the Harry Potter and Twilight series. Now publishers of serious literature are picking up the practice for some hotly-anticipated novels. - Publishers Weekly

Susanna Clarke Changed The Literary World, And Then She Disappeared

Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell blurred the lines - long-listed for the Booker, won a Hugo - but the author herself, not too long after the surprisingly, epically popular novel came out, collapsed, unable to write for years. - The New York Times

Let’s Face It, Charlotte’s Web Is Emotionally Abusive

“Of course the death of Charlotte was horribly sad, but far worse in my opinion was the moment when, during Wilbur the Pig’s hour of greatest need, the girl who owned him decided she’d rather go on the ferris wheel with Henry Fussy.” - The Guardian (UK)

Why We Don’t Read Books The Way We Used To

“Reading books is a battle in a way that, once upon a time, it wasn’t. That is to say: it’s never a battle while I’m inside the activity itself but granting myself permission to get inside it can be.” - Tom Cox

One Young British Author Is Fed Up With The Industry’s Flagrant Sexism

Eliza Clark, one of the Granta best fiction writers under 40, has a new book out. - The Guardian (UK)

Talk About Reaching Back Down The Ladder

Bernadine Evaristo, Booker winner for Girl, Woman, Other, is “paying it forward” by hosting writer residencies at her house. “We need to build a more supportive infrastructure to help writers from every background thrive and, in doing so, keep literature in all its life-enhancing manifestations, alive.” - LitHub

Grandparents Organizing To Fight Book Bans

“I want to make sure my grandchildren grow up in a world where they can read and form opinions based on knowledge, not on a narrow truth.” - The Cut (MSN)

Is This The Reason Some Of The Books We Buy Now Are Of Terrible Quality?

Many consumers likely don’t know the difference between a print-on-demand book and a traditionally produced paperback, at least not at first. But once you do notice, you can’t unsee it. - LitHub

How America’s Poet Laureate Collaborated With NASA On Its Mission To Jupiter

It isn’t the first poem to slip the surly bonds of Earth and it won’t be the last. But its origin story is a reminder of the link between art and science, and the way inspiration flows in both directions. - The New York Times

How Comic Sans Became The Most-Hated Font

Quibble with its gaucheness all you want, but a huge number of people have formed an opinion about Comic Sans, in the same way someone might form an opinion about art. - Slate (MSN)

How The Book Publishing Industry Deals With American Election Season

"Because publishers can’t rely on surprise bestsellers like Hillbilly Elegy, they find themselves playing a game of 4-D chess every fourth fall: How can they schedule their busiest season in an attention vacuum? And more confoundingly, what should they publish in the face of an uncertain outcome?" - Esquire

The Art Of Travel Writing

Travel writing, historically, has followed suit in expressing everything from performative adoration and exoticization to sheer racism and erasure. But at its best it can offer a sobering portrait of human folly, bias, humiliation, and desire for connection—those endlessly conflicted feelings that come with the experience. - JStor

When Edgar Allan Poe Was One Of Vietnam’s Literary Heroes

"(He held a) surprisingly major role in the early twentieth century, right at the dawn of Vietnam’s modern literature. For a period in Vietnamese history, Poe was 'America’s literary giant,' inspiring a generation of authors who would go on to take up arms and raise their voices in support of the struggle against imperialism." - Literary Hub

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