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Jul 25 2022: Ronni Solbert, an artist whose "joyful illustrations" helped make The Pushcart War--a children's novel about peaceful resistance to injustice, written by her partner, Jean Merrill--a classic, died June 9. She was 96. Solbert's illustrations, "at once urbane and ...
Jul 25 2022: After a flurry of last-minute filings and orders, the U.S. Department of Justice’s bid to block Penguin Random House’s acquisition of rival Big Five publisher Simon & Schuster is ready for court. Oral arguments are set to begin on August 1 before Judge Florence Pan at ...
Jul 15 2022: In 1996, Delia Owens and her husband Mark were the subjects of an ABC documentary, "Deadly Game: The Mark and Delia Owens Story", about their work trying to save elephants from poachers in Zambia. During the production, an alleged poacher's murder was filmed and now, ...
Jul 15 2022: In today's Washington Post Book Club, Ron Charles makes an important point about what a bargain books are: The price of a book in 2022 is only about twice what it was in 1981 which is less than half the rate of inflation. He goes on to highlight the immense pressure ...
Jul 13 2022: America’s Next Great Author takes more than a little inspiration from American Idol’s format—the plan is for “tryouts” to take place in cities across the country, with would-be authors delivering their one-minute pitches to industry professionals. The field will be ...
Jul 12 2022: Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden today announced the appointment of Ada Limón as the nation’s 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2022-2023. Limón will take up her duties in the fall, opening the Library’s annual literary season on Sept. 29 with a reading of ...
Jul 11 2022: After soaring 18.9% in the first half of 2021 over the comparable period in 2020, unit sales of print books retreated in the first half of 2022, dropping 6.6% from 2021 levels. According to NPD BookScan, total first-half print sales were 362.6 million, down from 386.6 ...
Jul 08 2022: The 2022 Urban Libraries Unite Trauma Study draws upon a wide-ranging literature review, survey responses from more than 435 urban library workers, focus groups, and a two-day forum...
The report describes a range of violent or aggressive patron behavior toward ...
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