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Author: Sharyn Vane

Censorship
Politics 

2022–The Year in Censorship

December 12, 2022December 14, 2022 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Duval County, Ellen Oh, Gender Queer, Maia Kobabe, Moms for Liberty, Nya's Long Walk, The Bluest Eye, The Diary of Anne Frank, Toni Morrison

A shameful 12 months for book banners

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Sold A Story
Politics 

‘Sold A Story’ Reignites Reading Wars

November 28, 2022January 2, 2023 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Christopher Paul Curtis, Christopher Peak, Emily Hanford, Gay Su Pinnell, Heinemann, Irene Fountas, Lucy Calkins, Madeline Edison, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sold A Story

Podcast fuels new debate about best way to teach kids to read

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Simon & Schuster
AUTHOR STUFF 

Federal Judge Blocks Penguin Random House/Simon & Schuster Merger

November 4, 2022November 7, 2022 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Florence Y. Pan, Jonathan Karp, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Stacy Mitchell, Stephen King

Will authors benefit? Could a breakup of Amazon’s publishing monopoly be next?

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Libraries
Politics 

Libraries Closing Under Threat

September 26, 2022October 4, 2022 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments American Library Association, Banned Books Week, libraries

Banned Books Week turns dark as numerous city libraries shut down after bomb scares

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Censorship
Politics 

Back To Censorship

August 19, 2022August 23, 2022 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments ACLU, Censorship, Keller ISD, Texas, The Bible, The Diary of Anne Frank, Toni Morrison

A new school year means more curriculum and reading list controversy

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The It Girl
FICTION 

The Old College Murder

July 12, 2022August 24, 2022 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Agatha Christie, Ruth Ware, The It Girl, The Woman in Cabin 10

‘The It Girl,’ a modern dark academia murder mystery from ‘the modern Agatha Christie’

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Texas
FICTION 

Texas Triangles

May 17, 2022August 24, 2022 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Amanda Eyre Ward, May Cobb, My Summer Darlings, The Lifeguards

Women take center stage in these juicy beach reads about the strayed bonds of friendship

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Surplus Property
Politics 

Books As “Surplus Property”: A New Angle for Censorship

May 11, 2022May 13, 2022 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Allison Bechdel, Bernadine Evaristo, Dave Eggers, Fun Home, Mitzi's Books, PEN America, Rapid City, The Circle, The Perks of Being A Wallflower

Novelist Dave Eggers calls Rapid City book destruction an “unconscionable horror”

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Plum Creek
FICTION Politics Young Adult 

The Plum Creek Literacy Festival is Now an Anti-LGBTQ “Ministry”

April 18, 2022April 29, 2022 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Anne Ursu, Concordia University, Eliot Schrefer, Kelly Gallagher, Plum Creek Literacy Festival

Controversy continues to swirl around Concordia University young-adult book fair

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Colorful wall of books on the shelfs at the rotunda in Stockholm Stadsbibliotek (Public Library), April 22, 2017. The building is from 1928 and the architect is Gunnar Asplund. (Photo: Stefan Holm/Shutterstock)
AUTHOR STUFF 

Book Challenges Reach Record Highs

April 4, 2022 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments American Library Association, Angie Thomas, Ashley Hope Perez, Dolly Parton, FReadom Fighters, Gender Queer, George M. Johnson, Imagination Library, Jonathan Evison, Lawn Boy, Maia Kebab, Toni Morrison

Library association urges people to unite against book bans

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Soft Censorship
FICTION Young Adult 

The Insidious Rise of ‘Soft Censorship’

March 14, 2022March 23, 2022 Sharyn Vane 4 Comments Ashley Hope Perez, Brandy Colbert, Kari Lavelle, Round Rock ISD, We Need Diverse Books

YA authors face canceled events, shadow bans, and other quiet dismissals of their work

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Late Fees
AUTHOR STUFF FICTION NON-FICTION Politics 

A Fine Idea

February 25, 2022February 24, 2022 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Austin, Chicago, fines, late fees, libraries, Phoenix

Austin, TX, is the latest public-library district to eliminate late fees for overdue books

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American Library Association
FICTION Young Adult 

American Library Association Awards Winners Are Facing Bans

January 25, 2022January 26, 2022 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments American Library Association, Ashley Hope Perez, Carole Boston Weatherford, Eliot Schrefer, Last Night At The Telegraph Club, Malinda Lo, Printz award

School districts continue to challenge the best young-adult books

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The School For Good Mothers
FICTION 

What To Expect When You’re Expecting the Unexpected

January 12, 2022January 17, 2022 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Jessamine Chan, The Handmaid's Tale, The School For Good Mothers

‘School For Good Mothers’ is a helicopter-parenting dystopia

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Evison
Politics 

The Year in Censorship

December 21, 2021April 3, 2022 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments

A banner year for book banners

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