July 21, 2016

Earlier this week, Melania Trump, wife of no-longer-presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, briefly claimed the title of America’s best-known Slovene, for all the wrong reasons. Unless you’ve been living… Read more »

Colleges and Universities

Fundraiser sends more than 5,000 books to Ethiopia’s largest library — Nikki Griffiths
The world's largest university press to close its only remaining printing arm — Nikki Griffiths
Britain’s foremost collector of LGBT literature posthumously donates important collection — Nikki Griffiths
#MeToo authors in the classroom: OK or nah? The "Gray Lady" weighs in — Mike Lindgren

Jordan-based LGBTQ webzine faces lawsuits and death threats

Taylor Sperry

Lawsuits and death threats have been volleyed at Jordan-based LGBQT webzine My.Kali, which has just released its first Arabic-language issue in the May/June 2016 edition. My.Kali went live in 2007 and… Read more »

Don’t Mess With Textbooks (unless they’re racist)

Liam O’Brien

Ah, textbooks—that glorious intersection of two notoriously fractious and slow-moving fields of endeavor, publishing and government. Since they are the tools used to mold impressionable young minds and create good little citizens, a… Read more »

Have you written your bestseller yet? No? Well you’re falling behind as nine-year-old Hilde Lysiak already has…

Nikki Griffiths

Nine-year-old journalist and soon-to-be author Hilde Kate Lysiak has just signed a four-book deal with Scholastic. So who is this incredible youngster? No stranger to the written word, Lysiak started Orange Street News in… Read more »

Melville House Books

Some thoughts and context on the “confusion and hysteria” Melania Trump’s plagiarism has caused

Ian Dreiblatt