American Dirt

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Writers Accuse Internet Archive of Theft

April 1, 2020April 3, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Alan Brennert, American Dirt, Chuck Wendig, Internet Archive, Margaret Owen, National Emergency Library, Neil Gaiman, NPR

The National Emergency Library allows unfettered access to more than one million free ebooks

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The New Censorship

March 10, 2020March 13, 2020 Neal Pollack 3 Comments A Place for Wolves, Amélie Wen Zhao, American Dirt, Banned Books Week, Barnes and Noble, Blood Heir, Censorship, Hachette, Kate Elizabeth Russell, Kosoko Jackson, Milo Yiannopoulos, My Dark Vanessa, Ronan Farrow, Roxane Gay, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Woody Allen

Book bans are suddenly coming from inside the house

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‘Long Bright River’

February 26, 2020 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments American Dirt, Good Morning America, Liz Moore, Long Bright River

Liz Moore is a new master of the literary mystery

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Barnes and Noble Did Nothing Wrong

February 12, 2020February 18, 2020 Neal Pollack 2 Comments American Dirt, Barnes and Noble, Barnes and Noble Diversity Edition, David Bowles, Doug Melville, Hurston Wright Foundation, Moby Dick, Penguin Random House, Romeo and Juliet, Sofia Quintero

How a dopey “diversity initiative” ignited another round of book-banning

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‘My Dark Vanessa’ Author Accused of Plagiarism

February 3, 2020 Katie Smith 3 Comments American Dirt, Brandon Taylor, Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa, T. Kira Madden, Wendy C. Ortiz, William Morrow

On the Heels of ‘American Dirt’ Comes a Fresh Literary Scandal

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Such a Fun Rage

January 27, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments American Dirt, Care.com, Kiley Reid, Reese Witherspoon, Such a Fun Age

Kiley Reid’s Debut Novel Holds a Magnifying Glass to Well-Intentioned White Villainy

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