Posted on March 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM 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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A new report analyzing books targeted for banning during the 2023-24 school year finds significantly higher numbers of challenges when books feature characters of color or LGBTQ+ characters (PEN America).
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Readerlink will stop distributing mass market paperbacks to retailers like Walmart by the end of this year (Nate Hoffelder).
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Antonine Maillet, a Canadian writer who became the first non-European to win France's prestigious Prix Goncourt for the novel Pélagie-la-Charrette, died February 17 at age ninety-five; Maillet's work gave new prominence to the French dialect spoken among the Acadian people of Canada (The New York Times).
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French-Algerian author Boualem Sansal is on a hunger strike over his imprisonment in Algeria; PEN America and French President Emmanuel Macron are continuing to speak out against his detention (The Guardian).
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