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7 votes
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Ending censorship applies to prison too - US prisons remain the institutions where the most censorship occurs
21 votes -
Subversive, queer and terrifyingly relevant: six reasons why Moby-Dick is the novel for our times (2019)
23 votes -
Vanessa Lillie interviews Native American booksellers about their picks for Native American Heritage Month
10 votes -
UnbanCoolies interview with Ashley Hope Peréz, author of Out of Darkness
3 votes -
Scholastic to separate books on race, gender and sexuality for US book fairs
26 votes -
Scholastic Book Fair will discontinue separate collection of race and gender books
23 votes -
Ohio embraced the ‘science of reading.’ Now a popular reading program is suing.
36 votes -
Forgotten to return your library book? Don’t worry about it [library fines are falling out of fashion]
23 votes -
Book bans in Texas spread as new state law takes effect
14 votes -
Independent bookstores are thriving in Texas, and not just in big cities—in suburbs and in small towns, new shops are serving up classics, cocktails, and community
18 votes -
The US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts
39 votes -
Naomi Klein's Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
8 votes -
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation
32 votes -
What Tech Calls Thinking
5 votes -
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania children's author writes a book titled 'Banned Book', discusses censorship
12 votes -
American Library Association report: Texas led the nation in book ban attempts in 2022
14 votes -
Texas tried to enact more book bans last year than any other US state
13 votes -
Pahrump Nevada library considers controversial policy of moving children’s books to the adult section based on content
13 votes -
Early California woman mystery writer: the life and times of Lange Lewis
11 votes -
More than thirty years after its publication, picture book Daddy's Roommate has once again found itself the target of censorship
13 votes -
Tim O'Brien, author of the Things They Carried, announces new book America Fantastica
10 votes -
Using artificial intelligence to ban books only makes the problem worse
20 votes -
The cost to librarians and libraries from the US culture wars
22 votes -
Interview with Colson Whitehead: ‘A city summons you into its weird drama’
4 votes -
The coming enshittification of US public libraries
98 votes -
US District Judge blocks Arkansas law allowing librarians to be criminally charged over ‘harmful’ materials
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Ann Patchett talks about her new book, running a bookshop, and resisting censorship
8 votes -
Brandon Sanderson is your god
16 votes -
Recommended books on African American history for non-Americans
Hi all. As the title says, I'm looking for recommendations on books about African American history. I'm Irish and I know the basics about the civil rights movement and some other bits through...
Hi all. As the title says, I'm looking for recommendations on books about African American history. I'm Irish and I know the basics about the civil rights movement and some other bits through documentaries like 13th . Outside of that I've realized that my understanding of what African Americans have been though over the last couple of hundred years is pretty piss poor. I'd really like to educate myself a bit more, so any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
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Cormac McCarthy has died
@Publishers Weekly: BREAKING NEWS: Cormac McCarthy, a preeminent voice in American literature over the better part of the past half-century, died today at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., his publisher, Knopf, confirmed. He was 89. Full obit to follow.
69 votes -
2023 Library Systems Report | The advance of open source systems
4 votes -
Chuck Tingle goes mainstream...ish
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Banned in the USA: The growing movement to censor books in schools
14 votes -
US school librarians vilified as the 'arm of Satan' in book-banning wars
8 votes -
The real nature of Thomas Edison’s genius
6 votes -
What early American writers knew about our scariest stories
4 votes -
George Dawson book about racism effectively banned at George Dawson Middle School
7 votes -
Salman Rushdie attacked onstage at New York event
14 votes -
Where do you acquire books?
Hello! I do a fair bit of my reading via Libby (I have memberships at the NYPL and Brooklyn Public Library) but I like to pick up some physical copies as well. I've spent some time in a couple of...
Hello! I do a fair bit of my reading via Libby (I have memberships at the NYPL and Brooklyn Public Library) but I like to pick up some physical copies as well. I've spent some time in a couple of NYC bookstores but I'm curious about online portals folks here use to buy books. I've switched to bookshop.org for new books but what's the go to for used books?
Thanks!
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Book review of A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression
7 votes -
Furries are leading the war against a book-banning Mississippi Mayor
14 votes -
Tennessee school board bans Holocaust graphic novel ‘Maus’ – author Art Spiegelman condemns the move as ‘Orwellian’
28 votes -
Joan Didion, ‘new journalist’ who explored culture and chaos, dies at 87
4 votes -
US libraries report spike in organised attempts to ban books in schools
18 votes -
‘I think we should throw those books in a fire’: Movement builds on right to target books
17 votes -
Trader Joe wrote a memoir - The book is a sort of “Kitchen Confidential” for the grocery business, but without the drugs or rage
4 votes -
New York Public Library ends all late fees
23 votes -
Why is young adult fiction the defining literary genre of the last two decades? What does its popularity say about modern American life?
20 votes -
The current New York Times Best Sellers list for combined print and e-book fiction, scaled according to demand for the e-book at a selection of US public libraries
6 votes