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MoveOn launches Banned Bookmobile

Jul 07 2023: This month, the progressive advocacy group MoveOn is launching a Banned Bookmobile. It’s a school bus tricked out with bookshelves containing frequently challenged titles, such as Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye,” Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb” and Art Spiegelman’s...

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Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina dies after Kramatorsk strike

Jul 03 2023: Victoria Amelina, one of Ukraine’s best-known young writers, has died from injuries sustained in a Russian missile strike on a crowded restaurant in eastern Ukraine. She was 37.

Her death brought to 13 the number of civilians killed in the attack on the Ria Lounge ...

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Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bought it

Jul 01 2023: Goodreads, an Amazon-owned review site beloved by the bookish, has grown beleaguered. The site is built on outdated technological infrastructure, which made the cost of overhauling and updating it a challenge that was ultimately not worth it for the e-commerce giant,...

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TikTok sells a lot of books, now it wants to publish them too

Jul 01 2023: ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, began courting self-published romance writers earlier this year.

The company has already radically changed the way books are discovered online. And while ByteDance has said little publicly about its publishing plans, which ...

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Texas's new 'book sexual rating' law denounced

Jun 19 2023: Last week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law HB900, which requires suppliers of books to school libraries, librarians, and teachers to rate the books, both on future sales and retroactively. As the Texas Tribune wrote, all vendors, including bookstores, would ...

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Edwidge Danticat wins the 2023 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story

Jun 16 2023: Edwidge Danticat won the 2023 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, which recognizes writers "who have demonstrated exceptional achievement in the short story form." She will be honored December 1 at the annual PEN/Malamud Award Ceremony, held in ...

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Cormac McCarthy, celebrated US novelist, dies aged 89

Jun 13 2023: Cormac McCarthy has died at the age of 89, the American author’s publisher has announced. He died in his home of natural causes. His son John McCarthy confirmed the death.

McCarthy was best known for The Road, the 2006 post-apocalyptic novel about a journey taken by ...

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E.U. approves Vivendi purchase of Lagardère

Jun 12 2023: After a nine-month investigation, the European Commission has approved the purchase of Lagardère, owner of Hachette, France's largest publisher, by Vivendi, with several conditions. Vivendi must sell its Editis publishing house, the second largest publisher in France, ...

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