The Fairfax company's new platform aligns with a key priority of the Trump administration. Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2025-05-06 12:28:27 UTC ]
The District Court of Rhode Island has granted 21 states’ attorneys a preliminary injunction to stop the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services by the Trump administration. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
A lawsuit filed in federal court on April 7 by the American Library Association and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees alleges that the Trump administration’s recent “evisceration” of the Institute of Museum and Library Services is both illegal and unconstitutional. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
Attorneys general from 21 states have sued the Trump administration to block its recent efforts to scuttle the Institute of Museum and Library Services and several other federal agencies. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
Four of the Big Five publishers and Sourcebooks sent a letter to Congress on April 3 expressing “deep concern” for the nation’s libraries following a week of unprecedented turmoil orchestrated by the Trump administration at the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
The ALA, EveryLibrary, and other organizations and individuals have rushed to defend the IMLS against the Trump Administration’s ongoing efforts to eliminate the agency, which plays a key role in distributing congressionally approved funds to libraries, museums, and archives across the country. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
The ALA, EveryLibrary, and other organizations and individuals have rushed to defend the IMLS against the Trump administration's ongoing efforts to eliminate the IMLS, which plays a key role in distributing congressionally approved funds to libraries, museums, and archives across the country. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
The actor’s book Freckleface Strawberry is on a list of library books suspended for a ‘compliance review’ after a presidential executive orderJulianne Moore has said it is a “great shock” to learn that one of her books had been “banned by the Trump Administration” from schools serving the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-02-17 14:15:45 UTC ]
RESPONDING TO THE SECOND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION: Kim Kelly on the how-tos and DOs and DON’Ts of mutual aid • Madeline ffitch on direct action and survival work in the face of fascism • Josh Cook on what the publishing industry can do in the face of authoritarianism. | Lit Hub Politics Matthew... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-25 11:30:02 UTC ]
The free expression–averse, tariff-happy president is in the White House once more. This time, the book business knows what to expect—mostly. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
In a letter to members following the 2024 election, American Booksellers Association CEO Allison Hill voiced concerns about the future of the government's lawsuit against Amazon and the possibility of “new unconstitutional legislation and book bans” under a second Trump administration. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
“I adopted Fuck This Shit as my motto during the Trump administration and find it applies to something new every day.” Abigail Thomas on getting a (superb) tattoo at 80. | Lit Hub Memoir McKayla Coyle recommends sapphic reads for every occasion (like if “you’re a sad girl, or a hot girl, or a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-27 10:30:50 UTC ]
The committee, which had collapsed under the Trump Administration, will advise President Biden and the heads of the three major U.S. cultural agencies—the IMLS, the NEA, and the NEH—on “policy objectives, philanthropic and private sector engagement, and other efforts to enhance federal support... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-10-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
There has been lots of media buzz around the latest wave of books about the Trump administration. But how are they selling compared to yesterday's hits? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-08-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
Josh Rogin wants to “awaken” readers to the character of the Chinese Communist Party. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-03-12 13:00:00 UTC ]
More than 500 book industry professionals have added their names to a call for publishers not to sign up veterans of the departing president’s governmentFive-hundred American authors and literary professionals have signed a letter calling on US publishers not to sign book deals with members of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-01-19 16:25:50 UTC ]
More than 250 members of the literary community signed a letter this week urging publishers not to sign book deals with anyone in the Trump administration. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-01-15 19:12:33 UTC ]
In an open letter, more than 250 authors, agents, booksellers, and publishers urged publishers not to sign book deals with members of the Trump Administration or anyone "who incited, suborned, instigated, or otherwise supported the January 6, 2021, coup attempt." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
Yesterday, Georgia voters returned to the polls to decide which candidates would represent the state in the US Senate—and, by extension, which party would control Congress for the next two years. Early this morning, national outlets declared Reverend Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, the winner of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-01-06 15:02:37 UTC ]
The 2021 budget marks the eighth straight year of increases for IMLS, the last four years of which included proposals by the Trump Administration to permanently eliminate the agency. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-22 05:00:00 UTC ]