Brittany Allen
Author ProfileClaim This Author Profile
Prove ownership by publishing #HashtagPLUS and this profile link on your author page or an article under your byline. A moderator or admin will review the request before it merges into your real HashtagPLUS username.
🌐 lithub.comSource
This week, the New York Public Library announced its fresh class of Cullman fellows. The 15 gifted academics and writers were selected from a pool of over 800 applicants. They represent half a doze…
🌐 lithub.comSource
Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, the seismic family saga you couldn’t avoid in the early aughts, is finally getting a screen adaptation. In 2012, Noah Baumbach and Scott Rudin attempted to lasso that late modernist moon for a much-hyped HBO mini-series
🌐 lithub.comSource
As the internet noted earlier this week—and Claire Guinan at Jezebel observed yesterday—Vice President JD Vance may have a plagiarism problem. (Among his many others.) On Tuesday, the man with the most hillbilly blood on his hands announced a new
🌐 lithub.comSource
You may know her as a Grammy winning pop star, best at baiting hooks that keep Barbie in a trance. But these days you’re just as likely to know Dua Lipa for her second job: bookfluencer. The British impresario founded
🌐 lithub.comSource
The Newberry Library in Chicago is scouting transcribers to demystify its handwritten collection. As Dan Kelly wrote in yesterday’s Chicago, the archive’s hunt for “living Rosetta stones” first kicked off in 2013, when the Newberry launched a campaign to transcribe