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Like a Rolling Tome

March 21, 2023March 20, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Bookmobiles, Margaret Atwood, Nikki Snyder, Ron DeSantis, The Bluest Eye, The Handmaid's Tale, Toni Morrison

A Florida bookseller hopes an old-fashioned bookmobile will help combat the growing tide of school censorship

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Politics 

Who Will the Sensitivity Readers Edit Next?

March 15, 2023 Jamie Mason 1 Comment Enid Blyton, Huckleberry Finn, Ian Fleming, James, Mary Grant Bruce, Percival Everett, Roald Dahl, The Canterbury Tales, The Hardy Boys

Remaking literary works after the fact is nothing new, but let’s take every due caution

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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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sex
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Where Have All the Sex Scenes Gone?

February 22, 2023February 28, 2023 Jake Harris 0 Comments A Star Is Born, Eternals, Jonah Hill, Lauren London, Magic Mike's Last Dance, Penn Badgley, sex, Titanic, Top Gun Maverick, You People

Hollywood’s annoyingly puritanical Intercourse Discourse

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Dahl
FICTION Politics Young Adult 

Puffin Books Bowdlerizes Roald Dahl

February 20, 2023February 24, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Alexandra Nossel, Ashley Esqueda, Inclusive Minds, James and the Giant Peach, PEN, Philip Pullman, Puffin, Roald Dahl, Salman Rushdie

The despicable, dystopian story behind a publisher’s use of “Inclusion Ambassadors” to transform beloved children’s novels

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Roiland
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The Justin Roiland Scandal Implicates Everyone Involved

February 9, 2023February 20, 2023 William Schwartz 0 Comments Rick And Morty

The powers-that-be have a lot of skin invested in the ‘Rick and Morty’ game. They’d rather its creator just go away quietly.

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Glass Onion
FILM Politics 

Knives Out for ‘Glass Onion’

December 30, 2022January 3, 2023 Jake Harris 0 Comments Ben Shapiro, Daniel Craig, Elon Musk, Glass Onion, Rian Johnson

The mystery of the never-ending discourse

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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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HarperCollins
Politics 

HarperCollins Strike Continues With No Sign of an End

November 30, 2022December 8, 2022 Katie Smith 2 Comments Angie Thomas, Barbara Kingsolver, Gail Carson Levine, HarperCollins, Ibram X. Kendi, Meg Cabot, Padma Lakshmi, Veronica Roth

As the labor action enters its third week, we interview a key union member

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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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Ron Howard
Politics 

Ron Howard Should Not Be In Jail

November 10, 2022November 15, 2022 Neal Pollack 0 Comments A Beautiful Mind, Arrested Development, Happy Days, Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance, Ron Howard, Solo, Splash

You don’t like J.D. Vance? Well, it’s not Ron Howard’s fault

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Amy Coney Barrett
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Publishing Professionals Issue Orwellian ‘Dissent’ Against Amy Coney Barrett Memoir

October 27, 2022November 3, 2022 Neal Pollack 13 Comments Censorship, Lee Child, Penguin Random House, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett

One of the most cowardly, wrongheaded, pathetic statements in American literary history

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Banned Books Week
Politics 

Not All Banned Books

September 27, 2022September 29, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments American Library Association, Banned Books Week, Miami-Dade College, Of Mice and Men, To Kill A Mockingbird

Banned Books Week leaves out some of the classics

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George Stephanopolous
Politics TELEVISION 

George Stay On Top of This

September 27, 2022October 4, 2022 William Schwartz 0 Comments George Stephanopolous, Nancy Pelosi, Power Trip, Ron DeSantis

‘Power Trip’ with George Stephanopolous is an ineffective CNN+-like show hiding out on Hulu

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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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What We Saw At SXSW

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What Price ‘Glory’?

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