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The bestselling books of the week, a look at states that have banned book bans, and more from Book Riot's news coverage. Continue reading at 'Book Riot'
[ Book Riot | 2024-06-15 15:00:00 UTC ]
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Seven states have anti-book ban laws on the books, with several others progressing this legislative session. That, plus this week's extensive book censorship news roundup. Continue reading at 'Book Riot'
[ Book Riot | 2024-06-14 13:30:00 UTC ]
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The effort will feature a banned book every Wednesday on DPLA’s social media accounts. Last year, the group launched its Banned Book Club, a program that uses GPS-based “geo-targeting” to enable readers to check out e-book versions of banned books via an e-reader app. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
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What begins as a story about a Girl Scout Honor being censored for being about a teen's banned books project is a story of commissioners complicit in book banning county-wide. Continue reading at 'Book Riot'
[ Book Riot | 2024-04-24 12:00:00 UTC ]
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In China we have a saying that reading a banned book on a snowy night is one of the true joys of life. From this, one can well imagine the kind of satisfaction that reading a banned book may bring—like candy locked up in a cabinet, it releases a sweet fragrance into solitary spaces. Whenever […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-04-23 08:56:19 UTC ]
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On February 17, the Eleanor Roosevelt Center and the Fisher Center at Bard College will host the first-ever Eleanor Roosevelt Banned Book Awards; in addition, Judy Blume will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Bravery in Literature. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Banned book tables are a frequent sight at many bookstores. But are they helping the authors who need it most? Continue reading at 'The New York Times'
[ The New York Times | 2023-12-16 10:01:32 UTC ]
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U.S. prisons have banned tens of thousands of books and remain the largest purveyors of censorship. Continue reading at 'Book Riot'
[ Book Riot | 2023-10-30 10:40:00 UTC ]
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The publisher’s $10,000 Freedom of Expression prize invites teens to write about a banned book that changed their life, against a backdrop of rising censorshipPublisher Penguin Random House has launched a new writing award in the US celebrating freedom of expression in response to a rise in... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2023-10-24 12:34:56 UTC ]
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The New York Public Library's Teen Banned Book Club offers free nationwide digital access to banned and challenged YA books. Continue reading at 'Book Riot'
[ Book Riot | 2023-10-03 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Book bans are on the rise nationally, with nearly half those prohibitions happening in Florida school districts. Continue reading at 'HuffPost'
[ HuffPost | 2023-09-26 19:43:13 UTC ]
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The new program utilizes GPS-based “geo-targeting” to show readers the books that have been banned in their area, making e-book versions available to borrow digitally. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The award-winning author was arrested and tortured for his work – and then tortured again for writing about his detention. Now he smuggles his latest banned book into Uganda to ensure it is readKakwenza Rukirabashaija tries to keep his scars covered around his children. Even in the height of... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2023-07-04 12:53:40 UTC ]
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Illinois is the first state to officially ban book bans through new legislation that takes effect January 1, 2024. Continue reading at 'Book Riot'
[ Book Riot | 2023-06-12 20:34:10 UTC ]
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Shirts, pins, and stickers promoting banned books and fighting censorship are a great way to keep book bans in the public consciousness.- Rachel Brittain Continue reading at 'Book Riot'
[ Book Riot | 2023-05-03 10:33:00 UTC ]
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Banned books are some of the best to discuss in book clubs. This reading guide to frequently banned book New Kid will help you get started! Continue reading at 'Book Riot'
[ Book Riot | 2023-01-17 11:37:00 UTC ]
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Maia Kobabe's graphic memoir "Gender Queer" became the most banned book in American schools, drawing the Northern California artist and writer into the nation's cultural wars. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-12-21 11:00:19 UTC ]
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In the run-up to Banned Book Week, Firsts London will feature censorship from past centuries. The post England’s Firsts London’s 65th Outing Features Historic Banned Books appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2022-08-17 20:10:29 UTC ]
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As we’ve noted over and over again, the hottest new book trend sweeping the country is to ban them and/or burn them if they don’t align with your weird, paleoconservative, theocratic prejudices. Not great! But as ever is the case with this strange nation, when one group of Americans starts doing... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-06-10 17:01:27 UTC ]
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Maia Kobabe’s book “Gender Queer,” about coming out as nonbinary, landed the author at the center of a battle over which books belong in schools, and who gets to make that decision. Continue reading at 'The New York Times'
[ The New York Times | 2022-05-01 23:54:03 UTC ]
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