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Ethan Hawke On His Flannery O’Connor Biopic ‘Wildcat’: “I Don’t Know Who Cares About Literature...
Deadline Hollywood· 3 days agoWildcat, directed and co-written by Ethan Hawke and starring Maya Hawke (Stranger Things, Little...
Unplug the Classroom. Or Reboot It. Just Don’t Do Nothing.
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 3 days agoYet many of these conflicts are curiously out of sync with the actual experience of kids—who, as...
In Florida, a bestselling author is building a new community of literary resistance
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 days agoLauren Groff set out to open an independent bookstore that could stand up to her adopted home...
Nell Irvin Painter’s Chronicles of Freedom
The Nation· 19 hours agoOn May Day in 1933 in Birmingham, Alabama—a state that then had an unemployment rate of 25 percent—an unemployed committee held a mass meeting of Black...
Legislators put their SC school district into spotlight of book challenge debate
South Carolina Daily Gazette via Yahoo News· 7 days agoCulture war debates over what’s appropriate for library shelves put a rural South Carolina school...
‘A Long-Tongue Saga’ | Christopher Byrd
New York Review of Books· 6 days agoAlthough Forrest was praised by Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Stanley Crouch, and Toni Morrison (who edited his first three novels for Random House), his...
The Artist Who Burned the U.S. Flag Raises a New One in Venice
New York Times· 7 days agoDread Scott’s unabashedly activist art once led to a Supreme Court ruling on free speech. Nobody...
Even the banning of books is bigger in Texas
San Antonio Express-News· 1 day agoWhen I was young, my parents and I would make weekly trips to the Carnegie Library in Dodge City, Kan. The library, one of the 1,679 public libraries...
These Books On Black Motherhood Are Right On Time For Mother’s Day!
Black Enterprise· 12 hours agoFor Mother's Day, books can be great gifts to the women who have loved and nurtured us. Here's a list of books that celebrate Black motherhood.
The 57 books challenged in New York libraries in 2023
Albany Times Union· 5 days agoMore than 50 books were challenged last year at New York state school or public libraries, according...