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Please Don’t Tag Me in a Negative Book Review on Social Media
Friday, February 9, 2024
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Bookstagram, #BookTwitter, #BookTok, #Booktube, and book-related Substacks are the fastest-growing venues for contemporary readerly conversation. These communities don’t only spark sales, they expand the field of literary criticism to include diverse voices. In this panel, literary influencers and authors will discuss how this dynamic landscape is reshaping and sustaining the culture of literacy outside of traditional media and the most effective way for authors to engage with these communities.
Participants
Yohanca Delgado is a 2021–2023 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and 2022 NEA fellow. Her writing appears in the 2022 editions of Best American Short Stories and the O'Henry Prize Winning Stories and in the 2021 Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Lupita Aquino—better known as Lupita Reads—is a passionate literary enthusiast amplifying and highlighting books through Instagram and TikTok. When she’s not reading, you can catch her occasionally writing about books for Today.com, She Reads.com, and for her Substack.
Marines Alvarez is a book reviewer, freelance editor, and event organizer who, like her favorite protagonist of all time, dearly loves to laugh. On her BookTube and BookTok channels, she reads across genres, loves tackling community discourse, and talks a lot about the importance of representation.
Traci Thomas is the creator and host of The Stacks, a weekly podcast about books and the ways they shape our cultural understandings. Traci writes a monthly bookish advice column on shereads.com and hosts a live literary show with LAist called One for the Books.
Arianna Rebolini is a writer, editor, and National Book Critics Circle member from New York. Formerly the BuzzFeed Books editor, she recommends books in her newsletter, Reading Habits, and as a regular guest on NPR. She is coauthor of the novel Public Relations. Her memoir, Better, is forthcoming.
