Students work at a library on the campus of Cal State San Marcos last month. Credit: Amy DiPierro / EdSource The University of California and California State University are facing nearly an 8% reduction to their state funding for 2025-26 under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal unveiled Friday, raising concerns about the impact on their […]
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Gov. Gavin Newsom outlines his proposed 2025-26 $322 billion state budget during a news conference at California State University, Stanislaus in Turlock on Jan. 6, 2025. Credit: AP Photo / Rich Pedroncelli California school districts would receive $2.5 billion through a small cost-of-living increase, plus additional funding to train math and reading coaches, expand summer
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January 10, 2025, 1:46pm Friends, you read that right. A new film is coming to theaters in January that is… Hamlet staged in the Grand Theft Auto video game. Yes, Hamlet acted out by video game avatars, shot in-frame, and edited into its own film. Before you wonder if something is rotten in the stage
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January 10, 2025, 11:23am As my colleague Drew Broussard observed on this morning’s podcast, all of us at Lit Hub are in angry mourning about the ongoing fires in Los Angeles. To be sure, it’s worth finger-pointing the causes of this nightmare. (Looking at you, climate denying politicians…) And we’ll certainly need to discuss the
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If Carol Brady were on television today, she would sculpt ceramics, join garden clubs, host parties for her husband and organize parent-teacher association events. Regency-era ladies did needlework. Wealthy Victorian women prayed all day as their special liberated hobby. Daisy in The Great Gatsby professionally drank mint juleps at the Plaza Hotel. In the 1990s,
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A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests! Hosted by Drew Broussard. We’re back and raring to go—starting with a fiery intro from Drew (see below!) and then diving into something a bit more celebratory: some audio 2025 Most Anticipated picks
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Young Black activists Ericka and John Huggins arrived in Los Angeles around Thanksgiving 1967. They secured employment at an automobile factory in rural Los Angeles and moved into an inexpensive studio apartment in Venice Beach. Shortly after they arrived and before they joined the Black Panther Party (BPP), they learned of a “Free Huey” rally
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Article continues after advertisement We all of us have voices in our head. Most of them rattle on about quotidian matters (Brush your teeth, Remember your keys, I want pesto); many of them anxious (You’re late! Will this pain in my back never end? I’m
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In the days after the election, as the list of cabinet appointments seemed to confirm the likelihood that Trump would make good on the worst of his promises and threats; as House races ticked closer and closer to giving Republicans trifecta control of Congress; as the future looked bleaker and bleaker on both the domestic
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