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PEN America report confirms school book bans are surging

Oct 01 2024: PEN America has released its most recent report documenting public school book bans for the full 2023-2024 school year, finding 10,046 bans nationwide—a more than 200% rise over the previous school year. The report, Banned in the USA: Beyond the Shelves, confirms and ...

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Meryl Streep to star in series adaptation of ‘The Corrections’ from Jonathan Franzen, CBS Studios

Sep 27 2024: Meryl Streep could soon have her next major TV role. Variety has confirmed with sources that Streep is attached to star in a series adaptation of the Jonathan Franzen novel “The Corrections.”

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International Publishers call on Frankfurt to cut ties with Israel

Sep 26 2024: Publishers for Palestine, an international coalition of more than 500 publishers, issued an open letter on Tuesday demanding that organizers of the Frankfurt Book Fair cut ties with Israel. In the letter, the coalition, which formed last November, called for Frankfurt ...

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On appeal, Llano County seeks book ban ruling that would upend public libraries

Sep 25 2024: At an appeal hearing this week in a closely watched book banning case, lawyers for rural Llano County, Tex., told the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that it should strike down a three-decade-old precedent and hand politicians near total authority over what books can go ...

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ALA finds book challenges are slowing in 2024

Sep 23 2024: Is this a sign of progress? With Banned Books Week 2024 underway, the American Library Association released its preliminary data documenting attempts to censor books and materials in public, school, and academic libraries, finding that the number of tracked challenges ...

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PEN America finds new state laws are supercharging school book bans

Sep 23 2024: In a report released today, PEN America officials said that the organization has counted more than 10,000 cases of book censorship in public schools during the 2023-2024 school year, nearly triple the number from the previous school year, when PEN America recorded 3,362...

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US public schools banned 10,000 books in most recent academic year

Sep 23 2024: More than 10,000 books were banned in US public schools from 2023 to 2024, according to a report, marking a stark increase over the year before as Republican-led states pass new censorship laws.

The survey from PEN America suggested that bans of books nearly tripled ...

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Slovakia targets ‘wealthy’ book buyers with steep VAT rise

Sep 20 2024: Slovakia’s populist government has announced plans to drastically raise value-added tax (VAT) on books to help fix its public finances, drawing condemnation not only from booksellers and publishers but also far-right, pro-Russian propaganda groups seeking to circulate ...

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