Posted on March 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the politics-adjacent bookish news of the past few days.
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See what's up for auction and from whom from over 100 crime writers as part of a benefit for the Transgender Law Center; March 31 is the Day of Trans Visibility (Literary Hub).
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Penguin Random House and the National Coalition Against Censorship have announced separate fundraising efforts to push back against threats to the freedom to read (Publishers Weekly).
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The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, who drew ire for a sermon asking the president to show mercy, has a two-book publishing deal; We Can Be Brave, a YA book coming out October 25, and I Can Learn to Be Brave, which is a picture book coming out in summer 2026, both adapt Budde's bestseller How We Learn to Be Brave (The Associated Press).
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Four minor library patrons and their parents, with the support of the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of South Carolina, have filed a lawsuit against South Carolina's Greenville County for targeting LGBTQ+ literature through library bans (Book Riot).
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