Podcast Episode · Screenwriters' Rant Room · February 9 · 1h 30m

This article underscores the urgent need for better accessibility and patient-centered communication. in healthcare facilities

A tour through several spine-tingling queer experimental horror novels to ring in spooky season.

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Today we mark the launch of a new literary institution: the National Association of Black Bookstores. A nonprofit collective and member-based organization, the NAB2 looks to “amplify Black vo…

Today, the DAG Foundation announced the winners of its inaugural DAG Prizes, which award $20,000 each to a visual artist, a writer, and a musician “whose work expands the possibilities for Am…

Save Our Signs: Celebrate All-American History

Photo from The Samuels Public Library After being targeted by anti-LGBTQ book banners and having their funding pulled, a local library in Virginia successfully stopped a threatened takeover by a pr…

An antidote to our crazy world

The open letter and accompanying petition asking publishers "to make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines" garnered more than 600 signatures within a few hours.

They are a community’s soul, “cathedrals to who we should be as a society,” and so much more.

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By Christine Wiese I’m only three miles into the Asheville half marathon when the male front runners round the first turnaround point and come back past us. The gazelles, as I think of them, run wi…

Snake Son My boy slipped out like a snake rather than human. I had thought I’d be having a daughter like my mother and grandmother and great grandmother, cursed with girls they’d craft into paper p…

I seen him down in the gully, walking like he was beyond the reach of Time.