Our weekly round-up of literary news here at Catalyst and beyond, is brought to you by our intern Naomi Valenzuela. Naomi is from Phoenix, Arizona and El Paso, Texas, and is majoring in Creative Writing and minoring in English & American Literature at the University of Texas, El Paso, with plans of working in the publishing business after graduation
The New York Times has an article on the different women authors running for the Booker International Prize, an award for literature translated into English.
There is a library in Abidjan centered on women’s writing from Africa and Brittle Paper has an interview with Edwige-Renee Dro, the woman who started this project.
The Internet Archive gave access to millions of digital works with its “National Emergency Library” due to the pandemic. An article on NPR informs that many books are being shared here without authors’ permission.
Also on NPR, read about how The Plague (1947) by Albert Camus has skyrocketed in sales in Europe and what literature can show us about situations like ours.
Electric Lit has a list of free or cheap resources for writers trying to get published for the first time and don’t know where to start.
Read It Forward has a list that shares eight books about loneliness and solitude in these times of isolation.
On The Guardian, learn about the charities which celebrities are taking a part in by live-streaming themselves reading children’s stories.
Finally, in Catalyst Press news, our authors are also participating with our remote reading series! In this series, we’ll have videos from our authors/editors sharing from some of their books. Find them here at our site, or on our YouTube channel.
