| Finding Balance | Year in Architecture 2024 LJ’s 2024 Year in Architecture trends see public and academic libraries simultaneously designing for pragmatic concerns, such as safety and site constraints, and an equally important quotient of delight—achieving harmony in the process! |
| LJ Talks with Michael Nayak, Debut Author and DARPA Program Manager By Marlene Harris By day, Michael Nayak is Doctor/Major Nayak at DARPA (the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). He talks with LJ about his debut novel, Symbiote, his tenure at the South Pole, his writing inspiration, and the work of DARPA imagining the future. |
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| Literary Fiction | Prepub Alert By Melissa DeWild and Neal Wyatt LJ Best Booker Shokoofeh Azar has a new book, Lambda Award winner Marisa Crane returns with a coming-of-age novel, and Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Madeleine Thien offers a story that leaps across centuries; plus five debuts to note. |
“The humor, the power, the deeply meaningful nature of African American Vernacular English is its relationship to standard English words, which it’s signifying on. It’s combating them, playing with them, plucking them on the head, and I love that. It shows that African Americans live their lives through language and did so in ingenious ways.” —From “LJ Talks with Henry Louis Gates Jr., Tracey Weldon, and Jennifer Heinmiller” |
| Library Journal Wins 2024 Eddie Award By LJ LJ has received an Eddie award for its February 2024 cover story “Hungry for Connection: Addressing Loneliness Through the Library,” by Editor-in-Chief Hallie Rich. In May, 2023, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued an advisory calling attention to loneliness, isolation, and a lack of connection as a public health crisis increasing the risk of mental health challenges and even premature death. LJ’s feature examined how library programs “can build the very relationships our nation’s public health experts say we most need to cultivate.” |
| PEN Heaney Prize & Voss Literary Prize Shortlists Announced | Book Pulse By Kate Merlene Shortlists for the inaugural PEN Heaney Prize and the Voss Literary Prize are announced. Simon & Schuster will distribute ACC Art Books. Politico writes about how Jon Grinspan’s 2021 book, The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought To Fix Their Democracy, 1865–1915, has become a cult favorite among members of Congress. |
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