Posted on July 10, 2026 at 3:00 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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Kelly Jensen revisits twelve of her past posts on censorship in the opening to her weekly roundup of book ban and challenge news (Book Riot).
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One piece of older news that may or may not have been in Jensen's previous roundups, but made it into a library news collection this week, is that one of Utah's leading book-banning school districts might not be following the state law that has fueled the state's banning spree (Utah News Dispatch).
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According to a recent study, members of Gen Z are active users of libraries and increasingly trust them and their staffers (Library Journal).
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Hershel Parker, author of a two-volume biography of Herman Melville, died June 19 at age ninety (The New York Times).
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Dinaw Mengestu resigned as president of PEN America yesterday, after just seven months in the role; the embattled organization has been accused of not supporting Palestinian authors since the start of the war in Gaza (The New York Times).
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