Booksology President Emmanuel Macron’s office released a statement about the artist’s influence, saying: “Her death marks the death of a leading figure of French culture and a freedom-loving artist whose work conveyed a universal message and received tremendous international acclaim.”
Everand and Fable merge to create one powerful subscription service
Last year, Everand (a subsidiary of online book subscription service Scribd) acquired Fable (book club app), and now the two companies are joining forces to build one larger subscription service. Through the new service, Fable’s 5 million users and 200,000 book clubs will have access to more than 1.5 million e-books and audiobooks, and Everand users will have access to Fable’s advanced reading statistics and goal-setting features, and will be able to automatically transfer their reading progress and saved titles to Fable.
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40 literary organizations will receive $7.7 million (Courtesy of the Literary Arts Foundation)
After a repressive year under an arts-hating (and generally hate-filled) regime, we are back in style! It’s not perfect, but it’s a start. The fund, established last year, will distribute $7.7 million to 40 independent nonprofit literary organizations across 19 states. This effort is a result of the Endowment for Literature and the Arts, initiated by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in collaboration with the Ford Foundation, the Hawthornden Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Poetry Foundation, and one anonymous foundation.
So far, winners have received grants ranging from $40,000 to $500,000, including the National Book Foundation (which administers the National Book Awards), North Carolina Writers’ Network, Graywolf Press, and Copper Canyon Press.
Pride for Bookworms: An LGBTQ+ Romance Set in Bookstores and Libraries
I love bookish books, so reading books about queer love that I find in bookstores and libraries makes me feel very comfortable and comfortable. Not only that, but I feel it’s especially important to read this type of romance now, with all the bans on books by and about the queer community. Enjoy one or more of these romances that take us anywhere from 1960s New York City to Victorian London, and reach out to our representatives to help stop the passage of HR 2616 (the “Don’t Say Trans” bill). (Find your senators here and your representatives here.)
Test your knowledge with this quiz about books that changed the world
this week, new york times has released a new quiz through its Lit Trivia series. This is about books that have had an impact on society. One of these books furthered the civil rights movement, another was an exposé about the funeral industry, and one is said to have started the environmental movement as we know it today. Considering work and everything else, I admit that I would have felt a certain way if I had scored lower than I did (3/5) on the quiz.
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