Category: Literature in the News

This is the ongoing news and politicization of books in publicly funded libraries, in schools or otherwise. Ground News is reporting that “the Keller Independent School District” in Texas is “removing all books that were challenged last year within the school district, including the Bible, ‘The Bluest Eye’ by Toni Morrison and a graphic novel...

On February 2022, euronews.culture reported about a survey circulating concerning “Amazon changes its policy on ebook returns.” There’s also an embedded TikTok from @ranchernikii with another TikTok link to Brooke_and_books questioning this all. Meanwhile, this past couple of months for those following such hashtags as #AmazonIsNotALibrary, you’ll find upset Indie authors complaining about the skyrocketing...

Nancy Crampton Brophy, author of the essay and book, “How to Murder Your Husband” and “The Wrong Husband”, has been found guilty of murder of her husband, chef Daniel Brophy. Evidently the romance novelist told her cellmate how she did the crime. Crampton Brophy even swapped out the barrel of the gun she purchased to...

4-28-2022 We’ve mentioned before various reporting of book banning, but as of late there’s been a lot of this hitting the news as the U.S. gets closer to the 2022 November elections. Some recent stories about a book banning in the news right now… “Texans sue their county after books removed from libraries” “Biden criticizes...

On March 27, 2022, WTTW’s Black Voices talked with the author of “The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER”, a new book out about the COVID-19 pandemic and the medical challenges hospital staff faced in the ER. Discussed by the show was “the health inequities illuminated by the pandemic, as...

On March 22, 2022, according to Reuters, the Dutch publisher of “The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation,” by Canadian best-selling author Rosemary Sullivan is being pulled after a “counter-report by World War Two experts and historians was released in the Netherlands,” showing that the original investigation didn’t “withstand professional scrutiny.” The main...

GeekMom has posted a review of “the latest book club app” called Literati. “For $29.95 a month, you can join one of 26+ clubs…” Annual subscription costs $264 or $22 per month for the adult clubs. The app is available both on Google Play and in Apple App Store. According to the posting: What do...

“Every March, the National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities (NACDD) and its partners collaborate to observe Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month (DDAM).” With the 2022 theme being, “Worlds Imagined, focuses on how the world is changing as we move through and beyond the pandemic.” This was no doubt decided before the Russian-Ukrainian War broke out....