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Below are four areas of consideration. It’s not comprehensive, but instead, a series of places to start now. Where and how do you sticker items? Autauga-Prattville Library (AL) recently made headlines for two major changes to its policies. First, the board decided no books for those under the age of 17 could include LGBTQ+ content.
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As a bookseller, getting to handsell a stack of books is one of the greatest joys. But booksellers and bookstores play a vital role in communities across the country. Sure, they provide readers with an escape from reality, but they also help to curate a space where folks can become properly informed and educated about
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TODAY: Poet, writer, playwright, musician, painter, and filmmaker Weldon Kees was born in 1914.  “It should be a modest request to ask that ‘left’ not mean supporters of authoritarian regimes.” Rebecca Solnit on the perennial divisions of the American left. | Lit Hub Politics “Malcolm believed that Muhammad’s teachings saved him from rotting away in
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, where we report on literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. It Feels Like a Lot Because It Is a Lot If your latest scroll through the Netflix menu
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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1564, playwright and poet Christopher Marlowe was born.  “It should be a modest request to ask that ‘left’ not mean supporters of authoritarian regimes.” Rebecca Solnit on the perennial divisions of the American left. | Lit Hub Politics Matthew Salesses on the “too-lateness” of climate
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The adaptation of Shakespeare’s lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers story Much Ado About Nothing, titled Anyone But You, has grossed $189 million globally, making it the second highest-grossing live-action Shakespeare adaptation ever. The only other live-action adaptation of the Bard’s to beat it — if we aren’t counting 2019’s Lion King, since it is CGI — is Baz Luhrmann’s
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