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What Trump's
Rule Could Mean for Authors: The Author's Guild rounds up what
it knows about where the President-elect might stand on issues affecting
working authors.
Read Excerpts by
the NBF's 5 Under 35: Fiction to "leave a lasting
impression on the literary landscape" from Brit Bennett, S. Li, Yaa Gyasi,
Thomas Pierce, and Greg Jackson.
A Time for
Refusal: On Eugène Ionesco's 'Rhinoceros,' its relevance in the
age of Trump, and what it means to refuse a "new normal."
U.K. School
Library Closures: In an open letter, children's laureates demand
that the U.K. government investigate school library closures.
A Reading List
for Resistance: 25 works of poetry and fiction for anger and
action in the wake of the unprecedented 2016 presidential election.
16 Writers On
Trump's America: Essays by Toni Morrison, Atul Gawande, Hilary
Mantel, George Packer, Jane Mayer, Jeffrey Toobin, Junot Díaz, and more.
Twenty
Questions...with Lydia Davis: The 'Times Literary Supplement'
interviews the prolific fiction writer and translator on her favorites, who
will be read in 100 years, and more.
Elena Ferrante
in Conversation: The Neapolitan Quartet author on why readers
have trouble with challenging portrayals of women, narcissism, and smoking
cigarettes.
Quidditch Premier
League in U.K.: 20,000 players of the fictional sport from the
Harry Potter books play for teams such as the London Monarchs and the Yorkshire
Roses.
Lisa Lucas Asks
Kids to Read More: The head of the National Book Foundation is
young, female and African-American, and she's hoping to make reading fun for
the young.
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