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New literary releases and the ongoing fight over books
Marginal Notes by Ingrid Solheim: six links on Culture every week.
TL;DR
- Min Jin Lee’s new 600-plus page novel is the third installment in a planned four-part series focused on the Korean diaspora.
- Author Min Jin Lee wrote her latest epic after a health diagnosis prompted her to leave work and focus on her writing.
- Pulitzer Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver is set to release her new novel, Partita, next week.
- October’s science fiction and fantasy releases feature horror elements such as haunted dolls, invasive body horror, and unsettling television channels.
- Susan Farrell highlights that the 50-year-old burning of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five in a North Dakota school district reflects ongoing censorship battles in American education.
- NPR highlights upcoming fall releases from authors including Barbara Kingsolver, Chad Harbach, and Jasmine Guillory.
From the curator
Recent literary discussions highlight both the anticipation for new releases and the persistent challenges facing controversial works. The NPR article reports that Min Jin Lee is continuing her series on the Korean diaspora with a new novel, while the New Yorker article notes that Pulitzer Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver is releasing her own intimate new book, Partita. Meanwhile, the Conversation article by Susan Farrell examines how a North Dakota school district’s decision to burn Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five over 50 years ago remains relevant to current debates about what students are permitted to read.
Ingrid Solheim
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