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Keep Reading and Carry On: Mediated Reading During COVID-19 (2023)
Book Chapter
Marsden, S. (2023). Keep Reading and Carry On: Mediated Reading During COVID-19. In A. Ensslin, J. Round, & B. Thomas (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Literary Media (452-467). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003119739-41

n the 1990s Oprah’s Book Club became a significant media spectacle, with her televised book club conversations with readers and authors acquiring massive audiences. Through these televised discussions, Oprah’s Book Club brought mass-reading experienc... Read More about Keep Reading and Carry On: Mediated Reading During COVID-19.

Literary Prize Cultures: A Fairer Future? (2023)
Journal Article
Marsden, S. (2023). Literary Prize Cultures: A Fairer Future?. Wasafiri, 38(1), 67-79. https://doi.org/10.1080/02690055.2023.2133859

In June 2022, Costa Coffee announced that they would no longer be running the Costa Book Awards, one of the UK's most significant series of awards for fiction, children's books, poetry, non-fiction, and short fiction. The cancellation of the awards w... Read More about Literary Prize Cultures: A Fairer Future?.

“I take it you’ve read every book on the shelves?” Demonstrating Taste and Class Through Bookshelves in the Time of COVID (2022)
Journal Article
Marsden, S. (2022). “I take it you’ve read every book on the shelves?” Demonstrating Taste and Class Through Bookshelves in the Time of COVID. English Studies, 103(5), 660-674. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2022.2087033

The national lockdowns brought in in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 forced many people to work from home, including journalists, politicians, cultural commentators and celebrities. The familiar faces we would normally expect to... Read More about “I take it you’ve read every book on the shelves?” Demonstrating Taste and Class Through Bookshelves in the Time of COVID.