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Detransition, Baby

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The Saga of ‘Detransition, Baby’

April 12, 2021April 13, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Carmen Maria Machado, Detransition Baby, Elmer MacBride, Garth Greenwell, JK Rowling, Torrey Peters, Wild Women Writing Club, Women's Prize for Fiction

U.K. Women’s Prize nomination earns anti-trans backlash

Banned Book List

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The ALA’s Annual Banned Book List: A Sobering Snapshot of American Censorship

April 6, 2021April 9, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Alex Gino, All American Boys, American Library Association, Banned Book List, Brendan Kiely, George, Ibram X. Kendi, Jason Reynolds, John Steinbeck, Laurie Halse Anderson, Of Mice and Men, Something Happened In Our Town, Speak, Stamped, To Kill A Mockingbird

Parents and school boards still want to pull titles from shelves

Later

‘Later’ is Stephen King’s take on ‘The Sixth Sense’

April 2, 2021April 2, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments

Entertaining, derivative, and occasionally straining for relevance

Pilkey

FICTION Young Adult

Dav Pilkey Pulls Book Because of Racial Stereotypes

March 30, 2021April 6, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Captain Underpants, Dav Pilkey, Ook and Gluk, Scholastic

‘Kung-Fu Cavemen’ are no more

Lonesome Dove

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Larry McMurtry Was One Lucky Bastard

March 29, 2021March 31, 2021 Michael Giltz 1 Comment Brokeback Mountain, Cybill Shepherd, Diana Ossana, Doc?, E. Annie Proulx, Hud, James L. Brooks, Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove, Martin Ritt, Paper Moon, Paul Newman, Peter Bogdanovich, Polly Platt, Terms of Endearment, The Last Picture Show, The Murder of Mary Phagan, What's Up

The late Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist has Hollywood to thank for his biggest successes

Beverly Cleary

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America Mourns Beverly Cleary

March 28, 2021March 30, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Beverly Cleary, Faith Salie, Jenny Han, Judy Blume, Ramona Quimby, Reese Witherspoon, Viola Davis

Tributes pour in for beloved children’s author, who passed away last week at 104

‘Ridgerunner’ Takes a Wrong Turn at the Pass

March 25, 2021 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Gil Adamson, Ridgerunner, The Outlander

A Sophomore Slump Western from a talented Canadian author

pandemic

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The Things That Got Us Through the Pandemic Year

March 11, 2021March 17, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments AEW, Animal Crossing, Big Mouth, Bill Burr, Devolution, Dungeons and Dragons, Edward St. Aubyn, Eurovision, Guy Fieri, Hard Life, Jaja Ding Dong, James Tynion, Liam Gallagher, Life on Mars, Liu Cixin, Magnum P.I., Max Brooks, Patrick Melrose, Sault, Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads, Ted Lasso, The Big Goodbye, The Department of Truth, The Good Place, The Mandalorian, The Three Body Problem, Tiger King, Werner Herzog, YouTube

In a tough 12 months, our contributors turned to what they could

Dr. Seuss

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The Cancellation of Dr. Seuss

March 3, 2021March 8, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, Dr. Seuss, If I Ran The Zoo, Jim Jordan, Madison Cawthorn, Ted Cruz, The Cat In The Hat

Dr. Seuss’ literary estate pulls six early books for questionable content, setting off a political firestorm

Women's History

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The Best Young Adult Nonfiction for Women’s History Month

March 2, 2021March 9, 2021 Lily Moayeri 1 Comment Alice Paul, Ann Angel, Becoming, Charles and Emma, Claudette Colvin, Deborah Heiligman, Deborah Kops, Hidden Figures, I Am Malala, Irène Curie, Janis Joplin, Lise Meitner, Lita Judge, Malala Yousafzai, Margot Lee Shetterly, Mary's Monster, Michelle Obama, Phillip M. Hoose, Radioactive!, Rebecca Skloot, Sally Ride, Sonia Sotomayor, Tam O’Shaughnessy, The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Twice Toward Justice, Winifred Conkling

From scientists to activists to singers, these women changed the world

young adult

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An Exciting Year For Black Young Adult Authors

February 18, 2021March 3, 2021 Lily Moayeri 0 Comments Camryn Garrett, Debbie Rigaud, Fast Pitch, Ilyas'a Shabazz, Instructions for Dancing, Jay Coles, Leah Johnson, Love is a Revolution, Muted, nic stone, Nicola Yoon, Off the Record, Renee Watson, Rise to the Sun, Sharon Flake, Simone Breaks All The Rules, Tami Charles, The Awakening of Malcolm X, The Life I'm In, The Skin I'm In, Things We Couldn't Say, Tiffany Jackson

Great new narratives from returning favorites

Slough House

All the Slow Horses

February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 Christopher Farnsworth 0 Comments Mick Herron, Slough House, Slow Horses

‘Slough House’, the seventh book in Mick Herron’s series about disgraced exiles from British intelligence

A Spy In The Struggle

‘A Spy in the Struggle’ is No Struggle to Read

February 10, 2021February 10, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments a Spy in the Struggle, Aya de León, James Bond

Aya de León pushes the spy thriller into 2021.

Bookshop

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The Little Bookshop That Could (Or Couldn’t)

February 9, 2021February 18, 2021 Michael Washburn 3 Comments Amazon, Capitol Hill Books, Cavalier House Books, City Lights Bookstore, Elizabeth's Bookshops, Gilbert Jeune, LivreMoi, Malvern Books, Octavia Books, Owl's Nest Books, Powell's, Red Kangaroo Books, The Strand, Under the Silver Tree

Loyal customers rush to help indie booksellers in the time of COVID-19, but the real existential menace looms

FICTION Young Adult

Ten Great Young-Adult Fiction Debuts for the Next Two Months

February 8, 2021February 10, 2021 Lily Moayeri 0 Comments A Pho Love Story, Adrienne Tooley, Amelia Unabridged, American Betiya, Anuradha D. Rajurkar, Ashley Schumacher, Bethany Mangle, Denny S. Bryce, Hot British Boyfriend, Karen Bischer, Kristy Boyce, Loan Le, Louise Willingham, Monica Gomez-Hira, Not Quite Out, Once Upon a Quinceañera, Prepped, The Secret Recipe for Moving On, weet and Bitter Magic, Wild Women and the Blues

Across genres and cultures, publishing’s hottest sector continues to deliver

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