Posted on 04/07/2022 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
PEN America has added a special emergency session to its annual World Voices Festival. The event from May 11-14 will...
Posted on 03/26/2022 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson have had a decidedly literary bent. New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, speaking...
Posted on 03/25/2022 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Madeleine Albright, who died Wednesday at age eighty-four, is widely remembered as the US's first female secretary of state. But...
Posted on 03/24/2022 at 02:23 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Whenever a product or book is publicly challenged, you can almost count on a sales surge for it from its...
Posted on 03/24/2022 at 09:57 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
For many of us, the library is both heaven and a sanctuary. For librarians, though, it's increasingly becoming a source...
Posted on 03/21/2022 at 08:45 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
A Texas librarian says she’s been fired for refusing to remove books from the shelves. Suzette Baker told TV station...
Posted on 03/17/2022 at 08:03 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Author Haruki Murakami will protest Russia's invasion of Ukraine on his radio show this week. The Japan News reports that...
Posted on 03/16/2022 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Students across the country are joining librarians and other freedom-to-read advocates in fighting book bans. The latest example comes out...
Posted on 03/15/2022 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The literary community banded together last year to host online fundraisers to help vaccinate the world against COVID-19. So of...
Posted on 03/15/2022 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Little did the authors of two March releases know how timely their books would feel. Marie Yovanovitch, a former US...
