Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have decided not to participate in the New Yorker fest, acting in solidarity with the New Yorker Union, which is planning a one-night picket on Monday. The Union is asking to negotiate with management over a just cause provision in their contract. Warren and Ocasio-Cortez told the New York Times, “The NewsGuild and The New Yorker Union are fighting for basic dignity on the job, and we stand with them. We will not cross the picket line and attend the festival unless the New Yorker leadership agrees to the union’s demands—they should do so immediately.”

Twitter rounds up global media coverage of last night’s presidential debate.

The New Yorker Union has tweeted a thread about why they’ve decided to file an “Unfair Labor Practice” charge against their employers. According to the union, it wanted to discuss a just cause provision but management “walked away from negotiations.” The thread goes on to share five examples of “bosses’ unprofessional behavior.”

The Booker Prize award ceremony has been postponed two days to accommodate the publication of Barack Obama’s much-anticipated memoir. Gaby Wood, the Booker Foundation’s literary director,

At Nieman Lab, a guide to covering a contested election. The National Task Force on Election Crises have created resources for newsrooms for the days and weeks following November 3rd, when the election result may not yet be clear.

Tonight, the New Republic’s salon series continues, with a Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend event featuring Yaa Gyasi. Via livestream, Gyasi will talk with novelist and critic Rumaan Alam about Gyasi’s new novel, Transcendent Kingdom.

Literary Hub runs down fourteen new books to read this week, including Marilynne Robinson's Jack, Legacy Russell's Glitch Feminism,

Upon learning that she had won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for her first novel, The Old Drift, the US-bazed Zambian writer Namwali Serpell announced that she would donate the prize money to the Louisville Community Bail Fund, which assists protestors of Breonna Taylor’s murder by the police. She has also pledged to split the fee for her Harper’s story “The Work of Art” with the magazine’s unpaid interns.

Print-book sales continue to grow, with unit sales 16.4 percent higher in the week that ended on September 19 than in the same week of 2019.

The Washington Post has promoted Robin Givhan, who

The New Republic’s Jo Livingstone talks with Beverly Glenn-Copeland, the septuagenarian electronic musician who is finally getting his due. As a child, he was “obsessed” with science fiction, especially novels “that posited the existence of silicon-based life out there in the universe, as opposed to the carbon-based life forms we are.” He first began experimenting with computers because they require silicon to function.

For the Boston Review, historian Jefferson Cowie contextualizes the white American melodrama that “the government is not just coming for your guns, it’s coming for your

In “This Isn’t Justice,” Angelina Chapin writes about the indictment of former police officer Brett Hankison on charges of “wanton endangerment” in the killing of Breonna Taylor. Chapin points out that Taylor’s name is not directly referenced in the charges, which center on a shattered glass door in an apartment adjacent to Taylor’s. Chapin writes, “The woman whose death helped to galvanize mass protests and a racial reckoning in America was quite literally erased by the justice system.”

Poynter looks at how the media covered yesterday’s grand jury ruling on the Taylor case. BuzzFeed News

The Nation has redesigned its print magazine to feature 20 percent more pages in each issue and an expanded features section. “Why publish on paper at all?” Editor D. D. Guttenplan has a word.

Next month’s Portland Book Festival, which will be held online on November 5th through the 21st, will feature eleven authors who were longlisted for National Book Awards this year, including Isabel Wilkerson, Jill Lepore, Rumaan Alam, and more.

At the New Yorker, essayist Brian Dillon studies Joan Didion’s photo captions from her time at Vogue, and considers how her attention to them “is a matter of

The National Book Foundation has announced its “5 Under 35” list of promising young writers.

The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans list for 2020 includes writers and journalists such as Nikole Hannah-Jones, Kiley Reid, Sarah M. Broom, and Yamiche Alcindor, among others.

Haymarket Books is offering a free e-book of Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition by the Debt Collective, with a foreword by Astra Taylor.

For the New York Review of Books, Dayna Tortorici looks at memoirist Vivian Gornick’s life and work, and her “commitment to the question

Irin Carmon, coauthor of Notorious RBG, remembers the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “Only someone so stubborn and single-minded, someone so in love with the work, could have accomplished what she did—as a woman, survived discrimination and loss; as a lawyer, compelled the Constitution to recognize that women were people; as a justice, inspired millions of people in dissent.”

For those looking to learn more about the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, legal scholar Dahlia Lithwick recommends two books.

At the New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin—who has written books about the Supreme Court

Aperture magazine has announced a lineup of fall events for their new issue, “Native America.” The five virtual readings and talks will have speakers such as the issue’s guest editor, Wendy Red Star, artist Alan Michelson, photographer Martine Gutierrez, and more.

The nominees for the 2020 National Book Award have been named. The nonfiction list includes Jill Lepore, Isabel Wilkerson, and Karla Cornejo Villavicencio along with seven others. In fiction, Rumaan Alam, Megha Majumdar, and Douglas Stuart (also nominated for a Booker Prize this week) were among the longlisted authors.

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Poet, critic, and biographer Stanley Crouch has died at the age of seventy-four. Crouch, who received a MacArthur “Genius” award as well as many other honors, was best known for his writing on jazz and as a cofounder of Jazz at Lincoln Center. His books include Considering Genius and Kansas City Lightning. As a critic for the Village Voice, the New York Times, the Daily News, and JazzTimes, Crouch was famed for his fiery combativeness. As Jelani Cobb put it on Twitter: “ I spent a good part of my 20s arguing with #StanleyCrouch in my head. I disagreed with him about a LOT. But I also respected

The winners of the Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes have been announced: One Story, Conjunctions, and Foglifter are the print awardees, with Kweli and Nat. Brut winning in the digital categories.

The Literary Arts Emergency Fund will grant 3.5 million dollars to 282 organizations this year. The fund—a venture backed by the Academy of American Poets, the Community of Literary Magazine & Presses, and the National Book Foundation—was created this year to help support nonprofit literary groups affected by the pandemic.

White Negroes author Lauren Michele Jackson is joining the New Yorker as a