- I am baffled by the decision of the estates of Judy Garland, Sir Laurence Olivier, and others to license these actors’ voices to be used by GenAI to narrate audiobooks. William Earl has the latest. (Variety)
- Ed Simon profiles bookseller Samuel Roth, whose sales of “pornographic” books about sex put him in front of the Supreme Court in Roth v. United States, and talks about free speech. (LitHub)
- Sam Levin reports on Becka Robbins and Fabulosa Books‘s (San Francisco) efforts to send LGBTQ+ books to states where these books are frequently censored. (The Guardian)
- Prudence Peiffer looks to classics of the 1960s for guidance on environmentalism, racism, and more. (The Washington Post)
- …and an explosion of censorship news from Book Riot.
