We Need Diverse Books launches Unbanned Book Network to fight school bans

We Need Diverse Books has launched the Unbanned Book Network to counteract book bans in schools and libraries.

Aiko Bethea Worked with Brené Brown and the Gates Foundation. Her New Book Can Help 'Transcend Bull----' — Read an Excerpt! (Exclusive)

A Framework for Transcending Bullsh*t and Transforming Our Lives and Work,' advises readers on how they can "lead from our ...
Hoodline

Utah Book Brawl: ACLU, Vonnegut Heirs Sue To Put Banned Reads Back In Class

Earlier this month, the ACLU of Utah and two law firms filed Vonnegut v. Utah in the U.S. District Court for the District of ...
The Colorado Sun

Out West Books suggests titles you might call Western Noir

The staff from the Grand Junction bookstore recommends three murder mysteries set in the West — or a West-like planet.
Mission Local

How Daniel Meléndez found community among the shelves of a Mission bookstore

After moving from Mexico City to San Francisco, Daniel Meléndez found work and friendship at Dog Eared Books in the Mission ...

Alabama library denied funding because it won’t move classic book ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

In a meeting fraught with crosstalk and tension, the Alabama Public Library Service board voted to withhold state funding to the Fairhope Public Library. The library kept some flagged books, including ...

Rob Doyle: ‘I’m 43, but I’m still going into my own guts and exposing the weird and the shameful stuff’

The Dublin author on his multilayered new novel, Cameo, how he avoids making his working-class roots an ‘identity spectacle’ and why he quit alcohol ...

Arkansas to set a first-of-its-kind ban on all outside books from prisons

Starting Feb. 1, the policy bans families, publishers, and faith groups from sending reading material to incarcerated people ...