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When putting together the book censorship news this week, it felt like each story was trying to one up the next, ranging from the ridiculous to the truly chilling. We’re seeing an increase in lawsuits and legal involvement, from residents suing officials for banning books, to parents suing teachers for reading LGBTQ books in class,

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I’m lucky: I live in the suburbs of a large city. There are two independent bookstores within a ten minute drive from my house, and several more chain and independent bookstores within 30. If I want to have a perfect book discovery moment, I can make it happen without much trouble.  But the thing is,

NPD BookScan recently shared a report showing an LGBTQ book sales surge in the U.S. The sales of LGBTQ fiction in 2021 was 5 million, twice as much as they were in 2020. The surge has only continued in 2022, with a 39% increase so far. The increase has been led by young adult novels,

Despite investing in several reading and writing vacations by the sea and in the mountains, I hadn’t taken a vacation solely for reading until this year. With book stacks and wide-open days a constant in my daydream rotation, this fact unsettled me. Before traveling, I always pack books (too many, I suspect — if such

Netflix’s new Persuasion trailer features Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot from Jane Austen’s 1817 novel Persuasion, but with a twist. The original novel follows Anne Elliot eight years after her family convinced her to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth. Now that Anne’s family is renting to Frederick’s sister and her husband, Anne and Frederick

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In an interview with The Times to promote his new book, author James Patterson claimed that it was hard for white men to get writing jobs, both in the entertainment industry and in publishing, calling it “another form of racism.” He continued, “Can you get a job? Yes. Is it harder? Yes. It’s even harder

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This is the 34th year of the Lambda Literary Awards, which recognizes excellence in LGBTQ books in a variety of categories, including Bisexual Fiction, Lesbian Romance, Transgender Poetry, LGBTQ Studies, and much more. They are the largest LGBTQ book award, and they are usually presented in a ceremony in New York City. This year, they

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As part of its summer programming, the New York Public Library is giving away 500,000 free books to kids and teens this summer, starting yesterday! All you need is a library card — and you can sign up for one there if you don’t have one yet. The selections include picture books, chapter books, and

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Goodreads has revealed the most popular and best reviewed new books of the year so far. To compile the midyear list, the Goodreads’ editorial team analyzed the TBRs of more than 140 million members. The rankings were determined not only by which books were added to wish lists the most, but also by which books

Yesterday, LeVar Burton was interviewed at The View about his career and the impact of Reading Rainbow as well as discussing the new documentary Butterfly In the Sky. He discussed how the show was “counterintuitive” at the time, since television was seen as the antithesis of education, but he saw the potential to use technology

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