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"Journalism mustn't be silenced": colleagues to complete slain reporter's book

Jun 05 2023: One year after Dom Phillips was killed in the Brazilian Amazon, friends and colleagues have come together in a show of journalistic solidarity to keep his legacy alive and finish the book the British journalist was working on at the time of his death.

Phillips and ...

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17 plaintiffs plan to challenge Arkansas' library obscenity law

May 30 2023: Some 17 plaintiffs—including the American Library Association's Freedom to Read Foundation, the Association of American Publishers and the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) plan to sue the state of Arkansas over two sections of a new law that changes how libraries ...

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Majority of book challenges filed by just 11 people

May 24 2023: Books about LGBTQ people are fast becoming the main target of a historic wave of school book challenges — and a large percentage of the complaints come from a minuscule number of hyperactive adults, a first-of-its-kind Washington Post analysis found.

A stated wish to...

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Martin Amis, era-defining British novelist, dies aged 73

May 20 2023: Martin Amis, the influential author of era-defining novels including Money and London Fields, and the memoir Experience, has died at the age of 73 at his home at Lake Worth in Florida. His wife, Isabel Fonseca, said that the cause was cancer of the oesophagus.

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Amy Silverstein, who chronicled a life of three hearts, dies at 59

May 19 2023: Amy Silverstein, a celebrated writer whose two memoirs, including Sick Girl, from 2007, recounted her grueling yet joyous odyssey through a life that required two heart transplants, died on May 5. She was 59.

Her husband, Scott Silverstein, confirmed her death but ...

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Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit story originated in African folktales, expert argues

May 19 2023: Dr Emily Zobel Marshall, in a new essay for The Conversation, has called for wider acknowledgment of the debt Beatrix Potter owed to the Brer Rabbit stories told by enslaved Africans working on American plantations...

Copies of Harris’s Brer Rabbit folktale ...

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Salman Rushdie makes first public appearance since attack, praising "heroes" who saved him

May 19 2023: Salman Rushdie has made his first public appearance since he was stabbed and lost sight in one eye after being attacked at a literary event, joking that it was "nice to be back – as opposed to not being back, which was also an option."

Rushdie was a surprise attendee...

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Little Free Library announces 2023 Outstanding Achievement Awards

May 18 2023: The Little Free Library (LFL) has announced the winners of the fifth annual Todd H. Bol Awards for Outstanding Achievement, all of whom "embody LFL’s mission to build community, inspire readers and expand book access for all," the nonprofit organization said in a ...

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