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Elizabeth Foster talks about how she and her classmates took on an attempt to ban nearly 100 books in their school district and the new film, Banned Together , that documents their story. (Teen Vogue )
If you ever get a chance, I highly recommend being part of a book brigade. Not only do you get to check out books you might never have heard of, you also get to hang out with people who love books. The Associated Press has a fun story about 300 people who turned out to help a bookstore move house . (The Guardian )
Benjamin Dreyer muses on words we love to hate . (A Word About )
I recently learned that a lot of Norwegians spend Easter weekend reading crime stories. Jessica Furseth explains Påskekrim . (Atlas Obscura )
Francesco Perono Cacciafoco takes us behind the scenes on “glyph-breaking .” (Aeon )
Lolita C. Baldor reports that the censorship rot has struck Army and Air Force libraries . (Associated Press )
The rot has also attacked libraries in the United Kingdom. Alison Hicks discusses the current state of UK libraries . (The Guardian )
Chloe Garcia Roberts resists machine translation . (LitHub )Julian E.J. Sorapuru and A.Z. Madonna talked to archivists about their fears as Trump attacks federal records keeping, the National Archives, and cultural institutions . (Boston Globe )
Julia Métraux interviews Elizabeth McClellan , a poet with autism, in the wake of Robert Kennedy, Jr.’s massively ignorant, hateful speech last week. (Mother Jones )Lucy Kogler looks at publishing’s waste problem . (LitHub )
I love that fountain pens and stationery are making a comeback and, someday, I will get to go to a pen show like the one Patti Wetli describes in Chicago. (WTTW )
Fred Harter dives into the world of the Ethiopian craftspeople who are keeping the art of illuminated manuscripts alive . (The Guardian )
Andrew Newman reflects on The Great Gatsby on its centenary . (Public Books )
Meghan Sullivan crunches the numbers on our reading habits . (NPR )…and censorship news , courtesy of the amazing people of Book Riot .
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