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3 weeks ago | 
lithub.com | Dan Sheehan
Publishers for Palestine, a global solidarity collective of nearly 600 publishers across 50 countries, has condemned the ongoing silence of the world’s largest children’s book fair on the slaughter of children in Gaza.
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4 weeks ago | 
lithub.com | Dan Sheehan
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Press Month—a Lit Hub staff member will be recommending a small press book that they love. The only rule of this game is that there are no rules, except that the books we recommend must have been published, at some time, and in some place, by a small press.
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1 month ago | 
lithub.com | Dan Sheehan
For our Villains Bracket week, a few Lit Hub staffers wrote an ode to their favorite villain from our initial group of 64. Here’s Dan on Frankenstein’s Monster, from Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. “Remember, that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.”Frankenstein’s Monster now, Frankenstein’s Monster in 1818, Frankenstein’s Monster forever. Mary Shelly’s gothic opus is, for me, the greatest of all horror stories.
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1 month ago | 
lithub.com | Dan Sheehan
Article continues after advertisementChimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count, Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel, and Chloe Dalton’s Raising Hare all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. *Fiction Article continues after advertisement1.
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1 month ago | 
lithub.com | Dan Sheehan
As reported by Richie Assaly in the Toronto Star yesterday, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre—the largest queer theater company in the world—is among 18 theater and performing arts organizations that have joined a “cultural and academic boycott” of Israel: Launched in 2004 by a group of Palestinian academics, PACBI is the cultural arm of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), an international, non-violent movement that demands Israel’s withdrawal from the occupied Palestinian...
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1 month ago | 
lithub.com | Dan Sheehan
On October 25, 2023—when Israel’s war on Gaza had already claimed the lives of 6,500 Palestinians, including 2,500 children—the Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad posted on Twitter: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” The post would go on to be viewed more than 10 million times and supply El Akkad with the title of his first...
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2 months ago | 
readingeagle.com | Dan Sheehan
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2 months ago | 
lithub.com | Dan Sheehan
The Palestine Festival of Literature has launched a curated subscription service, the PalFest Bookshelf, which will deliver the best new books on Palestine, along with bespoke extras, straight to your door each month. Subscribers will receive six key books a year. Most will be new titles, and some will be “older works of enduring relevance.” Each book will arrive with a special extra chosen by the author—a bookmark, a pamphlet, an artwork postcard.
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2 months ago | 
lithub.com | Dan Sheehan
After fifteen months of protests, boycotts, and pressure campaigns (from Can Lit Responds, No Arms in the Arts, and other activist groups within the Canadian literary community), the Giller Prize—Canada’s most prestigious and lucrative literary award—has ended its decades-long partnership with lead sponsor Scotiabank.
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2 months ago | 
lithub.com | Dan Sheehan
Publishers for Palestine, a coalition of nearly 60 publishers across 50 countries, is calling for an industry-wide boycott of the world’s largest publishing event, the Frankfurt Book Fair, over the Fair’s “failure to address its ties to German state and corporate partnership in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, and programming that ignores Israel’s regime of occupation and apartheid.” A press release, issued earlier today, details the extensive and ongoing ties between the Fair...
