“I don’t have this need to consume ‘story': I need to have a debate, a dialogue with truth; to think more, write less, and to address issues not in a political way but in a philosophical way, a poetic way. Write less, in order to write stronger.” - The Guardian (UK)
Well - nobody but himself. "The feeling is most intense after dark, when the chair is bathed in the glow of a lamp, after I’ve locked the door of the flat from the inside, with the key in the lock.” - The Observer (UK)
“Feito turns up the volume in the new novel, ‘because it was fun, but also because they did drip belladonna into their eyeballs!’ (A poisonous Victorian beauty hack to make your pupils dilate.)” - The Guardian (UK)
Writer Thalia Zepatos: “Oregon became the testing ground where we first discovered the catchphrase 'love is love' and realized the power of telling the stories of same-sex couples and their families.” - Oregon Artswatch
“It’s the end of a 58-year-old partnership, which has brought writers from all over the world” - including later Nobel Prize winners like Han Kang - “to be in residence at the university.” - Iowa Public Radio
There’s been a bunch of authors and publishers lately saying, “Hey, this is hugely time-consuming. It’s an incredibly emotional process. What would happen if we stopped doing all this?” - Marketplace
“President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, as well as a 10% increase to tariffs on goods from China, went into effect on March 4 — and although the tariffs had been delayed once before, the publishing and printing industries are still left with questions.” - Publishers Weekly
“The Land of Sweet Forever compiles short fiction Lee wrote in the years before the 1960 release of her classic novel (To Kill a Mockingbird) and includes essays completed between 1961 and 2006. Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, will release the book Oct. 21.” - AP
“For many decades, linguists regarded such utterances” — mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like — “as largely irrelevant noise, the flotsam and jetsam that accumulate on the margins of language when speakers aren’t as articulate as they’d like to be. But these little words may be much more important than that.” - Knowable Magazine
Not all these phenomena constitute “banning” per se, but they all fall under what we might call the new “censorship consensus,” in which books are called upon to justify their existence through demonstrations of their moral value. - The Walrus
And, concludes a huge new PEN America study, it’s clear that “the current deluge of book bans we’ve been seeing these past few years is based around white supremacist ideology.” Intertwined with that is an effort to disappear any mention of LGBTQIA+ folks - and also people with disabilities. - Book Riot
For instance, “Florence Pugh’s Princess Irulan is the best read of the crew—she’s using her position in the Empire to get a ton of advance galleys, even the ones that seem impossible to get a hold of.” - LitHub
Andrea Barrett: Some writers will change facts. “But that makes me queasy. I think my own sketchy, early education made me realize that for some of us, what we read in a historical novel might be all we’ll ever know about a particular period.” - Los Angeles Review of Books
In stressful times, “the shoulds creep up. ... I should be reading more! I should be reading better books! I am making terrible choices with my limited time on earth!” - Reactor Magazine
