Posted on July 12, 2024 at 3:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
News from the book world isn't always rainbows and butterflies.
So here are the posts from the past few days that are more likely to make you cringe than cheer.
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Last year, rather than remove only LGBTQ+ pride displays as they were told, Blasco Public Library employees pulled down all displays in the children's section, to protest the singling out of one group; this year, county leadership struck a sweetheart deal with a tax-exempt private religious institution to let it rent library space at a steep discount (Book Riot).
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As July is Disability Pride Month, Kelly Jensen wants to highlight how often books addressing disabilities are caught up in book bans and challenges (Book Riot).
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Author Curtis Sittenfeld has decided to compete against ChatGPT to see whether artificial intelligence can write a better "beach read" than she can (The New York Times).
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