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Soft Censorship
Politics 

It’s Getting Harder to Deal With Soft Censorship

August 24, 2023August 27, 2023 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Ashley Hope Perez, Librarians, PEN America, Soft censorship

PEN America issues report indicating a huge ongoing political battle

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nose
FILM Politics 

His Wild Jewish Nose

August 17, 2023August 23, 2023 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan, Felicity Jones, Helen Mirren, Kathryn Hahn, Leonard Bernstein, Maestro, Rachel Brosnahan, Sarah Silverman

Controversy erupts online over Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein schnoz in ‘Maestro’ trailer

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Censorship
Politics 

Back to Censorship

August 10, 2023August 15, 2023 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Censorship, College Board, Florida, Game Of Thrones, Ghost World, Houston, Into theWild, Jodi Picoult, Romeo and Juliet, Sylvester Turner, Toni Morrison

As school goes into session, the culture wars flame on

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A Likeable Woman
FICTION 

May Cobb’s Texas Noir

July 11, 2023 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments A Likeable Woman, May Cobb, My Summer Darlings

Author’s juicy beach-read novels dig into the social mores that underpin women’s lives

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Netflix TELEVISION 

Make Us A Match!

May 26, 2023June 1, 2023 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Aleeza Ben Shalom, Indian Matchmaking, Jewish Matchmaking, Netflix, Sima Taparia

Netflix’s ‘Jewish Matchmaking’ is a star-making turn for its modern marriage mentor

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Banned books
Politics 

Book Bans Keep Breaking Records

April 24, 2023April 25, 2023 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments All Boys Aren't Blue, American Library Association, Banned Books, Gender Queer, George M. Johnson, John Green, Maia Kobabe, Margaret Atwood, Moms for Liberty, The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

A record-setting year for library challenges, according to the ALA

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libraries
Uncategorized 

The Movement To Defund Public Libraries Picks Up Steam

April 17, 2023April 24, 2023 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments American Library Association, Censorship, Clay Higgins, In The Night Kitchen, Jazz Jennings, libraries, Llano, PEN America

Conservative legislators, in the heat of a culture war, seem increasingly willing to starve library systems of funds

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Picoult
Politics 

Why Ban Jodi Picoult?

April 3, 2023April 10, 2023 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments American Library Association, Censorship, Jodi Picoult, Moms for Liberty, The Storyteller

Bestselling author–not of “adult romances”–finds herself caught up in the latest round of school censorship frenzy

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Politics 

Educators Are Emptying Bookshelves Under Legal Pressure

March 2, 2023March 3, 2023 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments EveryLibrary, Jim Tomes, Librarians, Ron DeSantis

Republican lawmakers continue push for criminal penalties for making “inappropriate” books available to minors

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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 1 Comment 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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