- Jeff Bender takes up his pen to let the epigraph have its say about why on earth it’s in this novel. (McSweeney’s)
- Emily Martin talks about the fight over Drag Story Hour. (Book Riot)
- I would very much like to know more about this collection of jokes and observations by a late-fifteenth-century scribe, please and thank you. Sarah Shaffi reports on the manuscripts of Richard Heege. (The Guardian)
- Greg Owen talks to PEN America Director of Free Expression and Education Programs, Jonathan Friedman, about the parallels between current efforts in the United States to censor books—especially LGBTQ+ books—and the beginning of Nazi book banning and burning in 1933. (LGBTQ Nation)
- I love a good hatchet job: critics review Josh Hawley’s book. (LitHub)
- …plus your regular dispatch of censorship news, courtesy of the wonderful people of Book Riot.
