Here are a few things that have recently caught our attention.

• Rapper Kodak Black is planning to donate 625 books to children at Broward County Schools in Florida to soften COVID-19’s impact on their education.
• If you have time on your hands, consider volunteering to help out research institutions as an “armchair archivist.”
• The Internet Archive has drawn outrage from the Author’s Guild and the Association of American Publishers for making scans of 1.4 million books available for unlimited borrowing during the pandemic.
• Read Molly Young’s take in Vulture on promoting a book during a pandemic.
• Beloved poet and memoirist Molly Brodak has died at age 39.
• A movement to turn the prison where Oscar Wilde was held into an arts center has come up short.
• The Believer has launched The Believer Jr., a limited-run newsletter of indoor activities for kids ages 4-8.
• Organizers and grantmakers have announced the Artist Relief fund, which will provide $5,000 relief grants to artists in financial emergencies.
• The New York Public Library has launched a virtual book club.
• Read in The Atlantic how public libraries are responding to the COVID-19 outbreak.
• A few things over at Lithub:
  • Actors are Reading Sonnets To Us Online to Soothe Our Isolation Anxieties
  • Remembering Mark Strand: Lover of Voicemails, Roaster of Chickens, Writer of Poems
  • The Power of Spaces Built for People with Disabilities
• The Guggenheim Fellows for the year 2020 have been announced.
• John Medeiros’s Self, Divided has won the 2020 Howling Bird Press Nonfiction Prize.

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