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Jan 27

Mississippi mayor withholds library funds over LGBTQ books

By Associated Press

The director of a Mississippi library system says a mayor is withholding $110,000 from his city’s library because LGBTQ books are on the shelves.

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Jan 27

Holocaust novel ‘Maus’ banned in Tennessee school district

By Associated Press

A Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate language" and an illustration of a nude woman, according to minutes from a board meeting.

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Jan 07

Rare Toni Morrison short story to be published as a book

By Hillel Italie, Associated Press

To much of the world the late Toni Morrison was a novelist, celebrated for such classics as “Beloved” and “The Bluest Eye.” But the Nobel laureate also completed plays, poems, essays, and a handful of short stories, one of which…

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Jan 06

Authors’ unpublished books kept getting stolen. Now, a suspect has been arrested

By Deepti Hajela, Associated Press

Authorities say they've solved a publishing industry whodunit with the arrest Wednesday of a man accused of numerous literary heists in recent years, allegedly impersonating others in the industry to amass a veritable library of unpublished works.

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Dec 31

‘Winnie the Pooh,’ ‘Sun Also Rises,’ Hughes poems among works going public in 2022

By Associated Press

"Winnie the Pooh" and "The Sun Also Rises" are among the works from 1926 whose copyrights will expire Saturday, putting them in the public domain in 2022.

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Dec 18

Hollywood bard, muse and reveler Eve Babitz dies at 78

By Hillel Italie, Associated Press

One of Hollywood’s greatest bards, Eve Babitz, has died at age 78. With love and candor, Babitz chronicled the excess of her native world in the 1960s and 1970s and became a cult figure to generations of readers.

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Dec 12

Anne Rice, who breathed new life into vampires, dies at 80

By Jake Coyle, Associated Press

Anne Rice, the novelist whose lush, best-selling gothic tales, including “Interview With a Vampire,” reinvented the blood-drinking immortals as tragic antiheroes, has died. She was 80.

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Dec 03

Meet Rosalind Franklin, a sidelined figure in the history of DNA science

By Molly Finnegan

In "The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix," Dr. Howard Markel tells the complicated tale of what he calls one of the most egregious rip-offs in the history of science.

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Oct 21

Watch 4:00
A Brief But Spectacular take on the disability rights movement

By Melissa Williams

Since childhood, Judy Heumann has faced ableism — institutionally, socially, and personally. New York’s public school system prevented her from enrolling, and she was often bullied or excluded by her own peers. After a lifetime of activism, she is finally…

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Sep 17

Fiction longlist for National Book Awards includes Richard Powers, Lauren Groff

By Hillel Italie, Associated Press

Powers' “Bewilderment” is his first book since the Pulitzer winning “The Overstory.” Groff's “Matrix” is her third consecutive work to receive a National Book Award nomination, following “Fates and Furies” and the story collection “Florida.” Anthony Doerr's “Cloud Cuckoo Land”…

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