Gesa Stedman rounds up the news, from defunct as well as new literary prizes to delivery crises, slow successes in the North to the huge impact of TikTok on publishing. Read more
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Making Sense of the Book World in 2020 and 2021
Gesa Stedman takes a look at the main trends of the key pandemic years when shops were closed, readers turned to fiction again, festivals went online and bookfairs were cancelled. Read more
Does the Digital Economy Support Literary Diversity?
Hannah Pardey, lecturer and researcher at Leibniz-Universität Hanover, is an expert on the digital aspects of the contemporary literary field. She explores in what way digitalisation enables or hinders literary diversity and takes a close look at the intersection of AI, emotion, and diversity. Read more
The Four Nations of the UK – How the Literary Field Works Beyond London
Gesa Stedman explores the complex connections and the colonial legacies which characterise Read more
Christmas in April – Post Kultur Parcels
Gesa Stedman introduces Post Kultur Read more
Book News April 2020
Gesa Stedman rounds up the most recent news from the literary field in the UK and in Germany, from Corona-affected bookshops Read more
Book News – The Latest Developments from the Literary Field
Gesa Stedman rounds up the most important news from the literary field from in-house audio production to more or less Read more
From No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference to A Pinch of Nom, From Audiobooks to Brexit: A Look Back and a Look Ahead
Gesa Stedman’s annual round-up looks at last year’s topics and Read more
Fire and Fury – The (British) Literary Field in 2018
Gesa Stedman takes a look back at trends and developments which dominated the literary field in the UK in 2018. While non-fiction was on the up, fiction was less important Read more
Writing Europe 1918-2018 – Public Reading with Kathrin Schmidt, Rachel Seiffert, Linor Goralik and Cécile Wajsbrot
How has Writing Europe changed from the aftermath of World War I to 2018? What did classic writers of the early 20th-century have to say about Europe just after the war? And how do four writers from Read more
