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Banishing Captain Underpants: An investigation of the 3,400 books pulled in Iowa.
USA TODAY via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoPart of a continuing series in the Des Moines Register’s Iowa’s Book Ban Battle project. Last fall,...
Appreciation: For 'Alienist' author Caleb Carr, rescuing a cat meant rescuing himself
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 months agoCaleb Carr, a military historian and bestselling author of "The Alienist," made his last book a...
Paul Auster, postmodern author behind 'The New York Trilogy' and 'Smoke,' dies at 77
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 3 months agoPaul Auster, the bestselling postmodern author, noir novelist and screenwriter behind "Smoke," "Lulu on the Bridge" and "The Inner Life of Martin Frost," has died. He was 77. "The New York Trilogy ...
Jane Austen’s House Museum enlists the public’s help to transcribe her brother’s memoir
Euronews via Yahoo Canada News· 3 months agoCould Jane Austen’s brother Francis shed some new light on the beloved author’s life? The Jane...
Byron’s letters reveal the real queer love and loss that inspired his poetry
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 4 months agoIt’s July 5 1807. A drunk and tearful young man sits in his college rooms at Cambridge writing in a...
The former host of ‘Reading Rainbow’ used to encourage kids to read books. Now he’s telling adults...
CNN via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAs the National Book Awards came to a close on Wednesday, finalists for the prestigious literary...
Justin Torres, Ned Blackhawk win National Book Awards as war, politics grab spotlight
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 8 months agoL.A. author Justin Torres and Yale historian Ned Blackhawk were the big winners at the 74th National Book Awards, honored for their works in fiction and nonfiction, respectively, as the prestigious ...
South Carolina education board deciding whether to limit books and other 'age appropriate' materials
Associated Press via Yahoo Canada News· 8 months agoThe State Board of Education is considering a universal definition of “age appropriate” educational...
In ‘Goth: A History,’ The Cure co-founder Lol Tolhurst traces the often-misunderstood subculture
Associated Press via Yahoo Canada News· 10 months agoWhat comes to mind when the word “goth” is spoken? Is it literature such as Edgar Allan Poe's poem...
School book bans have increased 33% since last year, but hope is not lost
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 10 months agoDespite growing lawsuits and protests against book restrictions, bans continue to spread rapidly,...