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
Libraries usually have summer reading programs once the summer vacation season starts. However, these are unusual times. Book Riot explores what libraries are doing to continue these programs safely.
May 25 was Africa Day! And Brittle Paper has a list of 13 African, under-the-radar books from the 1960s.
Over at Read It Forward, author Laura McHugh writes about why realistic heroines are the ones we empathize the most.
In Catalyst news, two of our books have great new reviews: Here Comes Lolo by Niki Daly, which Publishers Weekly calls “a winsome pick for early readers,” and Cat Among the Pigeons by David Muirhead, which the Midwest Book Review praises as “an inherently fascinating, impressively informative, and thoroughly entertaining read from first page to last.” Both books are out now!
Electric Lit has nine books exploring societal beauty standards and how they become obstacles to women.
Brightly has another list to diversify children’s reading lists. They recommend these 11 books that celebrate Muslim culture.
The National Book Festival will be celebrating its 20th anniversary this year but will be moving to a virtual setting due to the pandemic. Read more about it at The Washington Post.
LitHub has an article about the podcast “Keen On” where speakers discuss how our reading of some books may change after the pandemic.
