Breaking news on authors, publishers, and book-related topics

BookBrowse Book News

Page 70 of 423

View abbreviated list of news stories

Congress holds second hearing, focuses on censorship in classrooms

May 20 2022: Approximately six weeks after holding a hearing to investigate the recent surge of book bannings in public school libraries and classrooms around the country, the U.S. House Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held a second hearing in Washington, D.C., on ...

Full Story

Texas librarians face harassment as they navigate book bans

May 17 2022: For those librarians working at schools and at public libraries, the pressure to keep some challenged books off the shelves is growing. And some Texas librarians say the insults and threats through social media and the added pressure from supervisors to remove books are...

Full Story

Why do people, like, say, like so much?

May 15 2022: According to an article in The Guardian, saying the word ‘like’ has long been seen as a sign of laziness and stupidity. But its use is actually richly nuanced, goes back to Shakespearean times, and is an indicator of, like, intelligence...

Full Story

Robert Goolrick, whose books explored tragedy and endurance, dies at 73

May 15 2022: Robert Goolrick, a New York advertising executive whose firing at 54 liberated him to write a lacerating memoir of childhood sexual abuse and other family secrets, followed by acclaimed novels about endurance in the face of suffering and tragedy, died April 29 at a ...

Full Story

Pulitzer Prize: 2022 winners of book prizes

May 10 2022: The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced. See BookBrowse's awards page for winners of the book prizes including Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert, as told to Erin I. Kelly

Full Story

Texas residents are suing their county after books were removed from public libraries

Apr 28 2022: Seven residents in Llano County, Texas, are suing county officials, claiming their First and 14th Amendment rights were violated when books deemed inappropriate by some people in the community and Republican lawmakers were removed from public libraries or access was ...

Full Story

Don Winslow announces retirement from book writing to focus on political videos

Apr 28 2022: Bestselling author Don Winslow has announced that the two already-written sequels to his current novel City On Fire will be his last books.

Winslow says he will devote his time to launching digital campaigns supporting Democratic causes and opposing “Trumpism.”

“...

Full Story

A library's canceled romance book club calls attention to growing censorship

Apr 23 2022: A censorship battle at an Oklahoma library is calling attention to what critics say is the hypocrisy of legislative attempts to prohibit discussions and materials about LGBTQ issues.

Literary circles were up in arms after the Enid Public Library in Enid, Oklahoma, ...

Full Story

BookBrowse Book Club

Book Jacket
The Cover Girl
by Amy Rossi

Members Recommend

Who Said...

From the moment I picked your book up...

Click Here to find out who said this, as well as discovering other famous literary quotes!

Book
Trivia

  • Book Trivia

    Can you name the title?

    Test your book knowledge with our daily trivia challenge!

Wordplay

Solve this clue:

W the C A the M W P

and be entered to win..

Your guide toexceptional          books

BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.