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This year’s major journalism winners cover the Russian invasion of Ukraine and abortion restrictionsThis year’s Pulitzer winners include Associated Press, the New York Times and authors Barbara Kingsolver and Hernan Diaz.The Associated Press won two Pu…
Fines for overdue library books were eliminated more than three years ago in Chicago, Seattle, and San Francisco — as well as at the Los Angeles Public Library system (which serves 18 million people). The Hill reported that just in the U.S., more…
All across North America today, over 2,000 comic book stores are celebrating Free Comic Book Day. As it enters its third decade — the event started in 2001, according to Wikipedia — there’ll be over two dozen free comic books to choose from…
The novel, written with Kathy Lette in the 1970s when both were teenagers, was a landmark in Australian fictionFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastGabrielle …
Trips to see play at Houston’s Main Street Theater cancelled over ‘concerns raised about age-appropriateness of the performance’A school district in Texas has canceled a planned field trip to see a theater production of James and the Giant Peach after …
If it looks like a book, feels like a book and stacks like a book, then there’s still a good chance it may not be a book. From a report: Fake books come in several different forms: once-real books that are hollowed out, fabric backdrops with images of …
Sex scene in Bruno Le Maire’s book provokes ridicule and anger among opposition politiciansAn explicit sex scene in a newly published novel by the French economy minister has left the government facing fresh accusations it is not listening to the conce…
In an effort to appeal to indie authors, Spotify’s Findaway audiobook seller “will no longer take a 20 percent cut of royalties for titles sold on its DIY Voices platform — so long as the sales are made on Spotify,” reports The Verge. From the report:…
Colombian author’s En Agosto Now Vemos (We’ll See Each Other in August) had been just a rumour but now fans will get to read itRumours had long circulated that an entire literary masterpiece, never seen by the public, could still be lying in a dusty sa…
What Kids Are Reading report found communities on sites such as TikTok helped stimulate interest in readingThe number of books read by children increased by almost a quarter last year, according to a report, as BookTok and other social media trends sti…