Trump administration “shitcans” prison education reform project
Last year, the Obama administration hired Amy Lopez to spearhead an ambitious program meant to overhaul the prison education system. According to Ryan J. Reilly and Julia Craven at the… Read more »
Add this great story to the list of reasons you love librarians
Today’s feel-good story comes from Carolyn Johnson, librarian extraordinaire at Saint Francis International School in Silver Spring, Maryland. What did she do? Oh, she just collected 2,000 books (yes, that’s… Read more »
The parthenon of banned books has been built!
Back in November, we wrote about Argentine artist Marta Minujín’s plans to erect a “parthenon of banned books” as part of the documenta 14 art fair in Kassel, Germany. It… Read more »
What exactly is the point of interviewing Alex Jones?
She’s only been in the the job for a few weeks now, but Megyn Kelly, the bright future of our liberal media and newly minted star of NBC’s news programming,… Read more »
PRESS RELEASE: Melville House offers FREE ebook of torture report after Senate Republicans try to suppress it
Melville House has announced it is giving away free ebooks of its edition of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture after reports that the Republican head of the Senate… Read more »
National Willa Cather Center to open in Nebraska
Willa Cather, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of books including Alexander’s Bridge, O Pioneers!, and My Antonia, has been voted “most-notable Nebraskan” by the state’s Lincoln Journal Star newspaper. Sixty-two years after it first opened in the… Read more »
Al Franken calls Ted Cruz “full of shit” in his new book, Cruz doesn’t appreciate it
Senator Al Franken has seen his stature rise in the age of Trump. The former SNL star and author of Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Liar has been at… Read more »
Roger Ailes dies, his legacy sadly lives on
Did you hear? That Roger Ailes died last week? You may have missed it, as it happened on the same day that Chris Cornell—a fine singer and songwriter, an enduring… Read more »
Local media outlets keep getting swallowed up by conglomerates, and that’s bad for all of us
Back in a more innocent time—August of 2016—John Oliver did a story on the importance of local media. He talked about what would happen when news outlets discovered that posting… Read more »
Book Passage files suit against a new California law that threatens their ability to sell signed books
Back in October, we wrote about a new California law concerning the sales of signed memorabilia, which booksellers were worried might affect sales of signed stock. Shelf Awareness reports that independent… Read more »