- Lincoln Michel pivots off reading statistics to look at the waxing and waning of genre popularity. (Counter Craft)
- Even the dictionaries aren’t safe in Florida. Kelly Jensen reports on the latest censorship mishegoss. (Book Riot)
- Johannes Lichtman recounts the surreal experience of speaking to the Central Intelligence Agency’s creative writing class. (The Paris Review)
- Jeffrey Davis wonders about ethics and biofiction, or biographical fiction. (Book Riot)
- Daniel Villarreal explains how the Texas Library Association disgraced themselves by their treatment of the glorious Chuck Tingle. (LGBTQNation)
- Sandeep Vaheesan and Tara Pincock take a look at Amazon’s power over English-language publishing. (The Nation)
- David Nield has a few tips for figuring out if something was written by an AI tool. (Gizmodo)
- Emily St. Martin discusses a raft of censorship cases heading to court across the United States. (Los Angeles Times)
- …and Book Riot‘s weekly roundup of censorship news.
Your Florida book banning news never fail to make me raise my eyebrows and shake my head. But that’s a new low.
Right?! I feel so bad for Floridians who didn’t vote for those yahoos and who are stuck there.