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Advocates react to Utah ban of 13 books in schools and libraries: ‘It’s a tragedy’

Aug 09 2024: Library associations, free speech groups and advocates are expressing outrage and concern after the state of Utah ordered 13 books to be removed from public school classrooms and libraries in accordance with a new state law that passed earlier this year.

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Open Road launches geo-targeting service to fight book bans

Aug 08 2024: In an effort to give consumers the chance to read books that have been banned by various localities, Open Road Integrated Media has started a new marketing service, the Free Voices Geo-Targeting initiative.

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Inaugural inside literary prize empowers incarcerated readers

Aug 07 2024: At the inaugural Inside Literary Prize ceremony, held at the New York Public Library's flagship location in Manhattan on August 1, authors and advocates reflected on the significance of the first major U.S. book award judged exclusively by incarcerated people. The jury ...

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Utah outlaws books by Judy Blume and Sarah J Maas in first statewide ban

Aug 07 2024: Books by Margaret Atwood, Judy Blume, Rupi Kaur and Sarah J Maas are among 13 titles that the state of Utah has ordered to be removed from all public school classrooms and libraries.

This marks the first time a state has outlawed a list of books ...

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Flatiron to debut Pine & Cedar imprint with S.A. Cosby's next book

Aug 05 2024: Flatiron Books will launch a new imprint, Pine & Cedar Books, in summer 2025. Flatiron executive editor Christine Kopprasch has been named VP and publisher of the imprint, which will publish “compulsively readable, story-driven novels” with a focus, per the publisher, ...

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Pope Francis says future priests should read poetry and fiction

Aug 05 2024: Pope Francis has said that reading novels and poems is valuable in “one’s path to personal maturity” and should be encouraged in the training of future priests.

Novelists CS Lewis and Marcel Proust as well as poets TS Eliot and Paul Celan were quoted by the ...

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Freud's writings get an update—30 years in the making

Aug 01 2024: Sigmund Freud is having something of a moment. Psychoanalysis is suddenly everywhere: on such hit shows as Couples Therapy, where troubled lovers probe their unconscious minds; in upstart magazines, including Parapraxis, which applies the tenets of the talking cure to ...

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The 'Southwest Review' launches New Pony Press

Aug 01 2024: The Southwest Review, the literary journal founded in 1915 at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, is entering book publishing for the first time in its 108-year history.

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