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Our June 2020 pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is Lauren Wilkinson's "American Spy."
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In recent days, hundreds of authors have shared how much they were paid with the hashtag #PublishingPaidMe, a push to…
Discussion questions for ‘American Spy’
Our June 2020 pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is Lauren Wilkinson's "American Spy."
What to read, listen to and watch to learn about institutional racism
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5 book covers that show how Ann Petry’s ‘The Street’ was depicted over time
Ann Petry's "The Street" was the first novel by a black woman to sell more than a million copies. But…
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Tayari Jones answers your questions about ‘The Street’
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Author Lawrence Wright on ‘eerie parallels’ between the pandemic and his new novel
Amid a global pandemic comes a novel about a global pandemic. Lawrence Wright wrote "The End of October" before the…
Why a 1946 novel resonates with today’s working-class struggles
In Ann Petry's 1946 novel "The Street," which chronicles an African American woman's pursuit of the American dream, the main…
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Little libraries become food pantries during COVID-19
When the coronavirus emerged in the U.S., people who share books on a small-scale, the stewards of little free libraries,…
New anthology collects dozens of poems about pandemic
More than 80 poems are included in an anthology, "Together In a Sudden Strangeness," coming in e-book and audio formats…
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