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  2020-03-16

  Love in The Time of Corona: Pobel

  Our headline comes from adapting the title of a novel by the Nobel prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, replacing the infectious Corona for the infectious Cholera. In his love-triangle story, he speaks of the lessons learned from a particular woman, but he may as well have been speaking about the now-global crisis we humans are facing: “(she) stood him on his head, tossed him up and threw him down, made him as good as new, shattered all his virtuous theories, and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.”
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  2020-04-02

  Totem of the Stitches by Natalia A.B.

  I began writing this book at the end of eight grade. I worked on it for two years until just this last April, and self published it completely independently at age 15. This book is about the hardships of a teenager's life, the darkness of existence. It focuses a lot on questioning society, it's structure and the way we function, as well as the darkness of an adolescent's life that we don't all get to see or experience. Publishing this book during quarantine was something I was as initially doubtful about seeing as the situation of our present is severe throughout the entire world. However, this book helped me personally through hard times in my life, and I felt as if publishing this book might help other people feel less alone in a time of fear and sadness. Thus, I published this book amidst the pandemic, and hope to provide a bit more light in a time of darkness.
• 2020-05-12

  Bolsonaro's silence on artists' deaths reflects disdain for Brazilian culture

  Artists criticise Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, for ignoring the recent deaths of several authors, artists, and actors. Bolsonaro once cited a dictatorship-era torturer as his favourite author.
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  2020-04-10

  "author signings during a pandemic"

  Tweet of pictures of Claribel A Ortega picking up copes of her new book to sign in her car while wearing gloves and a mask for protection.