Bookstores out west re-open . . . and re-close
It’s been terrifying to study the hockey stick-shaped graphs of Covid-19 spikes in places like Arizona and Texas, states that had closed-down insufficiently and have now re-opened too early. Unfortunately, this has… Read more »
Laura Moser pivots to print, joining Strong Arm Press after a failed Congressional bid
Laura Moser is famous for two things. One of those things is Daily Action, an online and mobile platform that enables grassroots activists around the country to engage with their… Read more »
Austin celebrates the grand opening of its new central library
This past Saturday in Austin, Texas, community members and public officials celebrated having made good on something they’d promised each other some four years earlier: to build, in the words of Democratic Mayor Steve… Read more »
In Texas, a badge is passed to a new bookseller
Move over, Barnes and Noble — the Texas Book Festival has a new bookseller sweetheart, just in time for its twenty-second year. Readers of Texas, say hi to BookPeople. (Maybe you’ve already met?)… Read more »
Prisoners in Texas are allowed to read Hitler’s Mein Kampf, but not Jon Stewart’s America
In a piece published Tuesday at Quartz, Thu-Huong Ha writes: Each US state has their own policies for what books and magazines to let into prisons, and the rules aren’t clear or… Read more »
Don’t Mess With Textbooks (unless they’re racist)
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 »
Austin-based nonprofit is robbed of hundreds of books it had planned to send to prisoners
Established in 1998, the Inside Books Project is a volunteer-run organization based in Austin, Texas dedicated to providing free books and other educational materials to the state’s 140,000 incarcerated individuals.… Read more »
The majority of Texans are gay, writes Texas GOP
Earlier this month, the Texas Republican Party gathered in Dallas to update the party platform for 2016. “As expected,” Leif Reigstad writes for Texas Monthly, “the platform was basically a… Read more »
Why a Texas bookstore wants you to bring your gun shopping
As of the first of this year, residents of Texas, as well as visitors with a proper license, are now legally allowed to carry firearms in public. Visible guns and mixed feelings swiftly surfaced everywhere, and dozens… Read more »
This week in dangerous children’s books, at home and abroad
Another day, another stack of children’s books that are actually socially dangerous tools of the insidious Gay-Muslim-Liberal conspiracy to inculcate the innocent minds of young readers with perverse concepts. Depressed yet? You will be!… Read more »