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Maya Angelou featured on new U.S. quarter

Jan 12 2022: The U.S. Mint has begun shipping a new quarter featuring writer, poet, performer, social activist, and teacher Maya Angelou, who becomes the first Black woman to be featured on the quarter. Coins featuring additional honorees will begin shipping later this year and ...

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Print books had a huge sales year in 2021

Jan 06 2022: Unit sales of print books rose 9% in 2021 over 2020 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. 826 million print units were sold last year, a jump of nearly 68 million over 2020 and a whopping 132 million over 2019. The young adult fiction segment had the largest increase,...

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London publishing staffer arrested and accused by FBI of stealing manuscripts

Jan 06 2022: A London publishing staffer has been arrested and charged by the FBI with allegedly stealing hundreds of book manuscripts over several years.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on 5th January that 29-year-old Filippo Bernardini, an Italian citizen who works as...

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Joan Didion, whose 'electric anxiety' inspired a generation, has died at 87

Dec 23 2021: American novelist, journalist and essayist Joan Didion died on Thursday at her home in New York at age 87 from Parkinson's disease, according to Knopf publicist Paul Bogaards. The bestselling writer began describing her home state, California, for magazines in the 1960s...

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Some school librarians fed up with book bans are organizing and fighting back

Dec 22 2021: Carolyn Foote was shocked and angry when hundreds of books about race, equality or sexuality in Texas school libraries were targeted by Republican lawmakers. She and other librarians focused on making their collections more reflective of the increasingly diverse ...

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Obituary Note: bell hooks

Dec 16 2021: bell hooks, the renowned author, scholar, feminist and activist whose work examined race, class, gender and the ways they intersect, died on December 15 at the age of 69, the Lexington Herald reported. She died at her home in Berea, Ky., surrounded by friends and family...

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Penguin Random House defends effort to buy Simon & Schuster

Dec 13 2021: Penguin Random House, the largest book publisher in the United States, said in a court filing on Monday that its plan to buy a competitor, Simon & Schuster, would be a boon for the industry, benefiting authors, booksellers and readers.

The Justice Department has ...

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'Interview with the Vampire' author Anne Rice dies at age 80

Dec 12 2021: Anne Rice, author of the best-selling Vampire Chronicles novel series, died December 11 from complications resulting from a stroke, her son Christopher announced on social media. She was 80 years old.

Rice's biggest success was her first novel, Interview with the ...

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