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News & Notes – 8/26/2023

News & Notes – 8/26/2023

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Worth Reading/Viewing ** May be behind a paywall, if you have used up your free articles for the month. Thoughts on Books and Authors… Read more »

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News & Notes – 6/03/2023

News & Notes – 6/03/2023

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff. Bookish News Worth Reading/Viewing Bookish Quote Twitter Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 StumbleUpon 0

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News & Notes – 4/22/2023

News & Notes – 4/22/2023

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Literary Losses Anne Perry, bestselling author of the Charlotte & Thomas Pitt and William Monk historical mystery series, died on April 10, 2023, at the age… Read more »

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News & Notes – 3/25/2023

News & Notes – 3/25/2023

News & Notes is a monthly or bimonthly post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Worth Reading/Viewing For Writers & Bloggers Lists of Links Cool, Fun, and Awesome Bookish Quote Twitter Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 StumbleUpon 0

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News & Notes – 9/10/2022

News & Notes – 9/10/2022

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Literary Losses NAME, short bio Obituaries and tributes: The Guardian; Los Angeles Times; NPR. Bibliography and Biography: Goodreads; Wikipedia Bookish News The Hugo Award winners were announced and presented on… Read more »

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News & Notes – 5/28/2022

News & Notes – 5/28/2022

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Barnes & Noble Being Sued in Virginia Beach over Gender Queer, A Court of Mist and Fury. (Book Riot) Not content with banning books… Read more »

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News & Notes – 5/14/2022

News & Notes – 5/14/2022

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Literary Losses Patricia A. McKillip, World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, the Riddle-Master of Hed trilogy, and more than 15 other books,… Read more »

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News & Notes – October 3, 2020

News & Notes – October 3, 2020

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff. Literary Losses Winston Groom, author of the novel Forrest Gump (later turned into a film starring Tom Hanks), died Sept. 17 at the age of 77…. Read more »

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Banned Books Week 2020

Banned Books Week 2020

It’s Banned Books Week! Censorship of books (“banning” books) occurs all over the world, even in countries that generally oppose censorship.* In the US, it’s usually a state or local issue, and often involves books that a minority of people don’t want their library (or libraries) to carry, or their… Read more »

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News & Notes – 9/14/2019

News & Notes – 9/14/2019

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Libraries and Archivists Are Scanning and Uploading Books That Are Secretly in the Public Domain (Vice.com) Tennessee School Bans Harry Potter Books Because the… Read more »

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