Jan 19 2024: Author and philanthropist David Baldacci has been selected as the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Literary Champion. This annual commendation recognizes a lifetime of devoted literary advocacy and a commitment to inspiring new generations of readers and writers.
“David Baldacci, ...
Jan 19 2024: In a major victory for freedom to read advocates, the Fifth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals on January 17 upheld a lower court decision to block key provisions of HB 900, Texas’s controversial book rating law, finding that the law likely violated First Amendment ...
Jan 03 2024: Writing in the New York Times, Maris Kreizman, a book critic and the host of the podcast "The Maris Review," takes a critical look at Goodreads:
If you have not kept up with the latest scandal in the world of young adult publishing, it is a doozy. It involves a debut...
Jan 03 2024: However relevant the stereotypical, silence-enforcing librarian remains in the popular imagination, Mychal Threets wants to dispel any lingering notion of the library as a dry, humorless place, lorded over by rigid pedants.
In fact, Mr. Threets has leveraged the ...
Jan 02 2024: The New York Times this week filed suit against Open AI and Microsoft over the unauthorized use of its intellectual property in the training of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The suit, which the Times said is the first by a "major American media organization...
Jan 02 2024: Authors Jilly Cooper, Kate Mosse, Charlie Mackesy, and Alexander McCall Smith were among those recognized in King Charles III's second New Year's Honors list.
Cooper was made a dame for services to literature and to charity, after receiving a CBE in 2018. Mosse was ...
Jan 02 2024: Federal district court judge Stephen H. Locher has issued a preliminary injunction against most parts of an Iowa law whose penalties were to take effect yesterday. The law, signed by Governor Kim Reynolds last May, forbids school libraries and classrooms from carrying ...
Dec 22 2023: On January 1, 2024, thousands of copyrighted works from 1928 will enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1923. They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. This year’s highlights include Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence, The ...
The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China.
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