Works by white writers dropped from 88 percent to 75 percent in five years. It is by far the biggest such change in U.S. literary history. Although these findings point to significant gains, they also demand that we reckon with what appears now to be the beginning of their reversal. - The Atlantic
"Today, figures like Schomburg and … W.E.B. Du Bois are hailed as the founders of the 20th-century Black intellectual tradition. But increasingly, scholars are uncovering the important role of the women who often ran the libraries, where they built collections and — just as important — communities of readers." - The New York Times
Tattered Cover has faced a difficult financial situation in recent years. The local bookstore chain has been staving off bankruptcy for years under two different owners. It finally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last October, closing three locations and laying off nearly 30 workers in the process. - Denverite
The alleged crime happened when the Booker Prize-winning author was speaking at a human rights conference in Delhi in 2010; she said, "Kashmir has never been an integral part of India. It is a historical fact. Even the Indian government has accepted this." (For this, she was originally accused of sedition.) - BBC
“Style isn’t something you apply later,” Amis said in 2021, explaining why he couldn’t abide JM Coetzee. “It’s embedded in your perception, and writers without that freshness of voice make no appeal to me. What is one in quest of with such a writer? Their views? Their theories?” - New Statesman
Even in an age when people frequently wrote by hand, messy and at times illegible handwriting was still a common problem. They even had a word for it: cacography, calligraphy’s evil twin. - The Conversation
If you loved Appropriate? Well, it’s got to be Mat Johnson’s Loving Day. You’re an Outsiders fan? How about you take a look at Justin Torres’s incredible We the Animals. (These are eerily accurate.) - LitHub
Elizabeth Horan would really like us to know the name - and work - of Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, "the first and only great Latin American writer of the 20th century to declare her peasant origins and to describe herself as mestiza.” - El País
Now the book club - for Black, Indigenous, and other women of color - has more than 1300 members, and it’s about way more than books. - Oregon ArtsWatch
That’s right: Parents who love Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR for those in the know) series haven’t learn from the Game of Throne baby names brouhaha. Now it’s all Rhys and Cassian and Feyre, and etc. - CBC
"The Prison Mirror (is) made by and for the people held at the Minnesota Correctional Facility – Stillwater. … Publications like this aren’t common, but in an era where many journalism outlets in the free world are struggling to thrive amid scores of layoffs, journalism behind bars is actually growing." - NPR
"The (justices) in a unanimous decision said (state) superintendent Ryan Walters and the Department of Education overstepped their authority in trying to force Edmond schools to ban two novels. Local school boards retain the discretion to decide which books are in a school’s library based on their community’s standards." - Oklahoma Watch
The journals that were withdrawn were all owned by Hindawi, a company Wiley bought in January 2021, that was later discovered to have a paper mill problem at some titles. - Chemistry World
