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Friday, September 18, 2020

Much Ado About ‘Cuties’

September 16, 2020September 16, 2020 Jake Harris 0 Comments Cuties, Damien Chazelle, Donald Trump, First Man, Josh Hawley, Maïmouna Doucouré, Netflix, Ted Cruz, The Last Temptation of Christ, Tulsi Gabbard

How GOP lawmakers came to target a French film distributed by Netflix

AUTHOR STUFF CREATORS FICTION Politics Writers Young Adult

Jordan Marie Green Plays with ‘Fire’

September 2, 2020September 8, 2020 Sharyn Vane 4 Comments Dancing With Fire, Flatiron Books, Hawai'i, Jordan Marie Green, Macmillan, Melanie Conklin

Another YA author pulls book after criticism about cultural representation

FICTION NON-FICTION Politics

Powell’s Books Takes a Stand

September 2, 2020September 4, 2020 Michael Washburn 0 Comments ABA, Amazon, Bevis, Chatwin Books, Powell's, Skylight Books, The Strand

Portland indie giant will no longer sell on Amazon

FICTION NON-FICTION Politics

Literary Agency Fires Agent for TERF-y Tweets

August 26, 2020September 1, 2020 Katie Smith 1 Comment Anya Palmer, Bethany Baptiste, Jesse Singal, Matt Belford, Sasha White, Tobias Literary Agency

Fired agent’s supporters flooded the hashtag #IStandWithSashaWhite

FILM Politics

Q-Anon and the Politics of Myth

August 24, 2020August 26, 2020 Jamie Mason 0 Comments Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Michael Jackson, Prince Andrew, Q-Anon

‘Q: The Plan To Save The World’ is a bizarre call to arms

NON-FICTION Politics

How James Baldwin Can Help Us ‘Begin Again’

August 20, 2020August 19, 2020 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments Begin Again, Eddie Glaude, James Baldwin, Jr., The Fire Next Time

Urgent lessons from a not-distant past

NON-FICTION Politics

Is this the ‘Twilight of Democracy’?

August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 Art Edwards 0 Comments Anne Applebaum, David Daley, Twilight of Democracy, Unrigged

Or will the center hold? Or neither? Or both?

NON-FICTION Politics

Presidenting Is Hard

August 18, 2020August 24, 2020 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments 60 Minutes, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, John Dickerson, The Hardest Job in the World, The West Wing

‘The Hardest Job In the World: The American Presidency,’ by John Dickerson

DOCUMENTARY FILM Politics TELEVISION

Eight Must-Watch Candidates

July 24, 2020 Matt Hanson 0 Comments A Face in the Crowd, A Perfect Candidate, documentaries, HBO, movies, Nashville, Street Fight, The Contender, The Manchurian Candidate, The Wire, Wag the Dog

Vote yes for these on-screen campaigns to join your viewing list

Politics TELEVISION

Controversial Cannon

July 20, 2020July 28, 2020 Jake Harris 0 Comments Anti-Semitism, DeSean Jackson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Nick Cannon

Television host Nick Cannon is the latest star to come under fire for anti-Semitic comments

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Big Trouble at Bouchercon

July 9, 2020July 15, 2020 Jay Stringer 1 Comment Adam Hamdy, Blake Crouch, Bouchercon, Hector Acosta, International Thriller Writers, ITW, Linda Fairstein, MWA, Mystery Writers of America, Vanessa Lillie

ITW and the crime-fiction community finally face the #metoo conversation

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Harper’s Magazine Letter Cancels Cancel Culture

July 7, 2020July 14, 2020 Katie Smith 3 Comments Bari Weiss, David Brooks, Harper's, J.K. Rowling, Josh Gondelman, Malcolm Gladwell, Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky

150 authors and academics, including J.K. Rowling, sign the open letter

NON-FICTION Politics

Four More Books About Donald Trump

June 30, 2020July 1, 2020 Michael Giltz 0 Comments David Frum, David Shimer, Donald Trump, John Bolton, Masha Gessen, Rigged, Trumpocalypse

Why not 40? Or 400?

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Critical Mess: The NBCC Implosion

June 23, 2020June 26, 2020 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Carlin Romano, Hope Wabuke, Ismail Muhammad, NBCC

The National Book Critics’ Circle’s old-guard members refuse to roll with the times

AUTHOR STUFF FICTION NON-FICTION Politics

Literary Agent Gets Cancelled, Fires Her Whole Staff

June 4, 2020June 10, 2020 Katie Smith 20 Comments

Marisa Corvisiero didn’t want them “caught in the crossfire.”

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