At Library Journal, an interview with Usman T. Malik.

The Brooklyn Public Library issued a call for art for the Black American Library Card Project.

Electric Literature compiled a list of notable forthcoming books by women of color.

Gabriel Hart shared what he learned when writing A Return to Spring.

Tom Bissell looked back on A Confederacy of Dunces.

Hyperallergic discussed Danny Lyons’s photography of New York City.

John Scalzi revisited his collection of old cookbooks.

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