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This artist creates sculptures of mundane objects using the pages of vintage...
Something nice to look at this Wednesday: Swedish artist Cecilia Levy, a former bookbinder and graphic designer, is creating paper sculptures of familiar objects using words and phrases carved from...
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The smallest library in Maine is stocking its shelves with banned books.
If you’ve been paying attention to local news, you know the wave of book bans sweeping the nation isn’t slowing down—but people are pushing back. PEN America continues to speak out against censorship;...
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Researchers are mapping the effects of climate change on Walden Pond—with...
Last month, we blogged about researchers using ecological models to estimate the amount of lost medieval literature, and now, we’re blogging about the opposite: researchers using work from creatives to...
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Cheryl Strayed releases a cut scene from Wild in honor of the memoir’s 10th...
It’s been ten years since the release of Wild, Cheryl Strayed’s bracingly honest memoir about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail as a young adult after her mother’s death with no experience or training—and...
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Here are this year’s winners of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards.
This morning, Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard announced the winners of the 2022 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards, which have honored the best in...
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An Oklahoma lawmaker just compared librarians to cockroaches. It’s as bad as...
The wave of book bans and paranoia that books “corrupt” American kids is not slowing down—and neither is bad-faith engagement with librarians. A bill just passed the Oklahoma House that would require...
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You can relax now: Charles Dickens is no longer shadowbanned on TikTok.
On the topic of banned books (ha ha): as the Standard reported, the Charles Dickens Museum’s account is now visible on TikTok after a censorship mix-up, shadowban, and subsequent Twitter campaign to...
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Target removed many LGBTQ+ books from their website. No one knows exactly why.
A small mystery: last week, writers on Twitter discovered that many LGBTQ+ books were been missing from Target’s website after previously being listed on the site for pre-order. Not to be alarmist, but...
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Here is the shortlist for the 2022 Dylan Thomas Prize.
Swansea University has announced its shortlist for the 2022 Dylan Thomas Prize. The £20,000 prize celebrates work written in the English language across the world by authors aged 39 or under, and this...
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Glass Orchid, a new arts nonprofit in honor of Molly Brodak, has launched.
Yesterday, on late poet and memoirist Molly Brodak’s 42nd birthday, a new nonprofit formed in her memory launched. Glass Orchid is an organization committed to supporting independent artists, writers,...
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