SO THIS CAME BY MAIL. It’s a British book and my bookstore said they couldn’t get it. I have four good books going now. I’ve only read the first two poems in the Louise Gluck book. I don’t watch much on the screen anymore. Not even news. I get the New York Times and the Washington Post online, and I do like stuff YouTube brings me that I’ve subscribed to. I’ve vowed that this coming year I’ll read more, like I used to.
https://lithub.com/jane-smiley-on-what-its-like-to-have-your-book-banned/
It’s been some days since I’ve held the sign. Let me give thanks that the holiday break is over and tomorrow is Monday and my alarm goes off at 6:00 and I get up and do what I do and then go downtown with the sign. Don’t tell anyone but I never cared much for Thanksgiving. We weren’t a big food family when I was a kid. I only really liked the mashed potatoes with no gravy and the pie.
How 'Fahrenheit 451' inspires BookPeople of Moscow [Idaho] store to protect books and ideas
https://apple.news/Az1_e_yMbQYK858aNuam4Kw
The librarian who couldn’t take it anymore
She loved books. And in a time of spreading book bans in public schools, that’s why this Florida librarian had to quit.
https://apple.news/AOsXX3sDvQn6uYwgcRZFzkA
“she was called Phillis, because that was the name of the ship that brought her, and Wheatley, which was the name of the merchant who bought her. She was born in Senegal. In Boston, the slave traders put her up for sale:
-she's seven years old! She will be a good mare!
She was felt, naked, by many hands.
At thirteen, she was already writing poems in a language that was not her own. No one believed that she was the author. At the age of twenty, Phillis was questioned by a court of eighteen enlightened men in robes and wigs.
She had to recite texts from Virgil and Milton and some messages from the Bible, and she also had to swear that the poems she had written were not plagiarized. From a chair, she gave her long examination, until the court accepted her: she was a woman, she was black, she was a slave, but she was a poet. "
Phillis Wheatley, was the first African-American writer to publish a book in the United States.
https://www.bing.com/search?q=Phillis+Wheatley%2C+was+the+first+African-American+writer+to+publish+a+book+in+the+United+States.&PC=ARPL&PTAG=30040
https://lithub.com/how-bob-dylan-blurred-the-boundaries-between-literature-and-popular-music/
This couple just published a Nobel winner from their living room
Transit Books, the American publisher of Nobel Prize-winning author Jon Fosse, is the rare publishing house that literally operates out of a house
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/10/13/transit-books-jon-fosse-nobel-prize/
Book banning in public schools jumped 33% this year, so a group of enthusiasts is tackling censorship with a bus tour
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/05/banned-books-bus-tour-2023
BPL's new podcast series Borrowed and Banned tells the story of America's ideological war with its bookshelves. In seven episodes, we'll talk with students on the frontlines, librarians and teachers whose livelihoods are endangered when they speak up, and writers whose books have become political battleground.
THE TRUTH TELLERS
Stories change our hearts, expand our worlds, and challenge what was. Storytellers have always threatened those in power, but today the stakes are dire, as book bans and library censures increase across the United States. These authors of some of the most banned books in America are on the front lines. (That’s Jacqueline Woodson in the photo.):
https://lithub.com/how-the-vietnam-war-accelerated-generational-divides-in-america/
