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9/11: 20 years in books

Sep 04 2021: In an extensive article, Carlos Lozada, nonfiction book critic of The Washington Post and the author of What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era, looks back over 20 years of books relating to 9/11. In summation, he writes:

In The Forever ...

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Racism in the Dewey Decimal System

Sep 04 2021: ... The quickest possible glance reveals the racism in the Dewey Decimal System. We’ll use the religion section as an example. The 200s encompass all religion, nominally, although the problems with this premise are obvious. ... Each Dewey heading encompasses ten major ...

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What makes a book 'appropriate' for school?

Sep 03 2021: Author Nikki Grimes responds to the news that a school district in Leander, Tex., has removed her memoir, Ordinary Hazards, from the curriculum due to what they deemed "inappropriate content."

"... Censors will find nothing salacious, graphic, or gratuitous in ...

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Some fall books moved to 2022 due to paper shortages

Sep 03 2021: A recent report in The Washington Post warns, “book publishers, dogged by paper shortages and shipping delays, are pushing fall releases into early next year."

Ingram, a major book distributor, issued a statement noting that “the book industry, like all physical ...

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Obituary Note: Caroline Todd

Aug 31 2021: Caroline Todd, who wrote many bestselling series with her son Charles under the pen name Charles Todd, died on August 28.

Todd and her son published the first book in the Ian Rutledge series, A Test of Wills, in 1996. The book won the Barry Award from Deadly ...

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One of Hong Kong's last English language bookstores to close

Aug 30 2021: Bleak House Books, "one of Hong Kong's last independent English-language bookstores," will close October 15. The store, which sells new and used books, was founded in 2017 by Albert Wan and Jenny Smith.

Wan writes:

The decision to close the bookshop follows ...

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How Sally Rooney wrote again

Aug 28 2021: “Every day I wonder why my life has turned out this way,” a millionaire novelist named Alice writes to her friend Eileen in Beautiful World, Where Are You, out from Farrar, Straus & Giroux on Sept. 7. “I never advertised myself as a psychologically robust person, ...

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Famed San Francisco poet and activist Jack Hirschman dies

Aug 26 2021: Jack Hirschman, former San Francisco poet laureate, activist, and famed proponent of the Beat Generation, died at his home in the city on Sunday, said the organization in which he served as a co-founder and director. He was 87 years old.

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