"Library workers across Oklahoma's Metropolitan Library System (MLS) were shocked this week after receiving instructions to avoid using the word 'abortion' and not to help patrons locate abortion-related information on either library computers or their own devices." - Vice
There is a breed of Homo sapiens that will walk inside, take a deep breath, and say, “Mmm, I just love the smell of old books.” They are to be got rid of as quickly as possible, with whatever violence it takes. - The New York Times
Though the publishing industry would never condone book banning, a subtler form of repression is taking place in the literary world, restricting intellectual and artistic expression from behind closed doors, and often defending these restrictions with thoughtful-sounding rationales. - The New York Times
"You’re seeing a lot less cop novels, a lot less cop procedurals, because I think there’s an inherent disbelief in the goodness of the police right now." - LitHub
How did Julie Doucet become canonical? Part of the reason: "French comics, too, had its #MeToo moment, or #BalanceTonPorc (#DitchYourPig) as the French say." - Los Angeles Review of Books
That is, our earbuds, Air Pods, headphones, etc. - Julia Whelan is an extremely popular audiobook narrator who's writing (and narrating) her own story too. - The New York Times
That is, comics that read from top to bottom, on smart phones - and whose audience is mostly young women. One author: "We have these opportunities to share these romance stories as American creators — as American women authors and comic artists." - The New York Times
Until now, the earliest example of the genre was thought to be Will Eisner's 1978 A Contract with God. What's just turned up is Voyage and Adventures of a Good Little German in Kangarooland, by a new immigrant in Australia sent to an internment camp there during WWI. - ArtsHub (Australia)
Writer’s block is a luxury she can’t afford, which is why as soon as she heard about an artificial intelligence tool designed to break through it, she started beseeching its developers on Twitter for access to the beta test. The tool was called Sudowrite. - The Verge
"Around 100 employees and additional supporters (were) marching in front of the company's corporate headquarters in Manhattan in the sticky heat for higher wages, better family leave benefits and a stronger commitment to diversity from the company." - The New York Times
The tension reflects the paragraph’s curious history as a punctuation mark and unit of thought. In fact, what is a paragraph? only gets more complicated as we gaze further and further into the past, as the paragraph gradually dwindles to a thin line in the margins. - Hedgehog Review
Although the challenging of books and curriculum is hardly new in the United States, what we’re facing now is somewhat different. It is not parents or even school boards driving many of these challenges. It is the power of the state. - Los Angeles Times
"A new dictionary — the Oxford Dictionary of African American English — will attempt to codify the contributions and capture the rich relationship Black Americans have with the English language." The book is a project of Oxford University Press and Harvard's Hutchins Center." - The New York Times
In a 40-part tweetstorm, Erin Overbey argued that she was put under a performance review after complaining that female and male staffers at the magazine were not treated equally — and that, during her review period, errors were put into her work in an attempt to trap her. - The Daily Beast
