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Héctor Tobar’s The Last Great Road Bum: Who Tells the Story
By Barbara Hoffert
In his third novel, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Héctor Tobar reimagines the adventures of real-life Joe Sanderson, linking the United States and Central America as he considers who can claim the act of storytelling. |
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LJ Talks with New PEN America President Ayad Akhtar
By Sally Bissell
Ayad Akhar, novelist and Pulitzer-winning playwright, has been chosen as the new president of PEN America, an organization that unites diverse writers and their allies in championing freedom of creative expression around the world. LJ caught up with the very busy Akhtar to learn his thoughts on the new book and the challenges ahead. |
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John Sargent To Leave Macmillan
By Gary Price
From the New York Times: John Sargent, Macmillan’s longtime chief executive, will leave the publishing company in January because of disagreements over its direction, according to an announcement from its parent company, Holtzbrinck, last Thursday. |
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| "Our main priorities during this unusual time are to assure new students that they can count on us to support their learning and research, and that we will help them in every way we can to have an academically successful first year." | | From "Equipping First-Year Students for Remote Success" |
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The Fog of Implicit Bias | BackTalk
By Angela M. Jones and Jarrett Dapier
How can librarians determine when their implicit bias has guided them into viewing Black patron behavior as dangerous, and hence guided them to call 911, and when a situation is actually dangerous and requires a police response? |
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PRO MEDIA
PREMIUM
Academic Library Services for First-Generation Students
By Xan Arch & Isaac Gilman
Librarians will appreciate the list of questions that let them analyze their own institution’s situation, the spotlights on successful programs, and the sample surveys. For academic librarians looking to help first-generation college students flourish. |
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PERFORMING ARTS
PREMIUM
Laughing To Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century
By Danielle Fuentes Morgan
With this thoughtful, academic work, Morgan (English, Santa Clara Univ.) explores the idea of Black satire with an added function: to more or less safely rock the boat, expressing ideas that might otherwise be tuned out or provoke uncomfortable or even dangerous backlash. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCES
PREMIUM
Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement
By Cathleen D Cahill
Using archival sources and a plethora of other primary materials, Cahill (history, Pennsylvania State Univ.) builds her narrative around six unheralded female activists of color, compiling much more than a collective biography. An essential work; highly recommended for scholars of the period and general readers interested in women’s history. |
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PREMIUM
The Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War
By Daniel Y Kim
Kim provides an interpretation of how this “forgotten war” was remembered through a variety of mediums. [He] mostly focuses on American perspectives of the war, though Korean and Korean American viewpoints are featured in the final chapter and conclusion. Highly recommended for scholars interested in the Korean War from a cultural memory perspective. |
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Bradford Area Public Library (PA) seeks an Executive Director |
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