Posted on August 22, 2024 at 8:33 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!
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Charles R. Cross, who wrote acclaimed biographies of musicians Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain, has died at the age of sixty-seven (The New York Times).
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Kelly Jensen takes a deep dive into a new study from the Knight Foundation, but the key takeaway is that most Americans disagree with banning and restricting access to books in school libraries (Book Riot).
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Of course, there's theory and there's practice, and South Carolina's Greenville County Library system wants to take all books with trans characters out of the YA section (Book Riot).
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Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is being sued by three writers who say pirated copies of their work were used to train Anthropic's AI-powered chatbot (Reuters).
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