The last few weeks on the bookish internet

I know I’ve missed a few Sundays of bookish essays and news. All I can say is that, due to travel and illness, I was away from the keyboard. The bookish gods and my sinus cavity willing, things are back to normal today.

• Nadia Tamez-Robledo checks in with Texas librarians and teachers who had their school libraries turned into detention centers. (edsurge)
• Ron Rosenbaum has serious problems with “inventionism” and the literature of romance. (LitHub)
• Elizabeth Kaye Cook and Melanie Jennings expose self-censorship and lack of transparency over cancelations in literary magazines. (Persuasion)
• Thomas Gebremedhin brings us into the experience of editing literature while Black and examines Big Publishing’s ongoing problem with diversity. (LitHub)
• Diarmuid Hester wonders about the meaning of houses and homes in LGBTQ+ literature. (The Guardian)
• Simon Reader praises writing exercises. (Public Books)
• LitHub asked three incarcerated people about their experiences with ebooks in prison libraries.
• Christine Ro reports on one of the odder climate change mitigation efforts I’ve heard of: skinnier books. (BBC)
• Laura Wheatman Hill digs into NaNoWriMo’s AI scandal. (Slate)
• Michele Keleman talks to Russian publishers about how they navigate around censorship. (NPR)
• The editors of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books asked each other when they DNF, or decide not to finish a book.
• Ellen O’Connell Whittet examines a recent wave of bomb threats at American university libraries and what they mean. (LitHub)
• Julie Depenbrock interviewed Nicolette Quluqaaq Corbett and Katie O’Connor, who responded to a lack of children’s books in Yup’ik by writing and illustrating one. (NPR)
• Olesya Salnikova Gilmore sees a return (resurrection?) of the Gothic in fiction. (Crime Reads)
• …and an unprecedented triple helping of censorship news from the good people of Book Riot: September 6, September 13, and September 20.