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Where larger houses are bowing to cancel culture, fleet-footed independents are making braver decisions

A new report from the Waterloo Regional Police Service shows 911 answering times have been falling below an international standard in recent months.

The man behind Skyhorse books, which has published recent works by Woody Allen, Blake Bailey and Norman Mailer, explains why he keeps taking on controversial books

MICHAEL MAILER: Recently a story about my father, (pictured left with Michael Mailer and Norris Church Mailer in 1985 in NYC) the writer Norman Mailer, getting cancelled tore across the internet.

There is no let-up in the campaign to discredit and, if possible, eliminate artistic figures, past or present, whose work does not conform to the outlook and interests of the gender- and race-obsessed upper middle class.

Winter has arrived. The tourists are gone and it's quiet atop Petit Jean Mountain this morning.

Also in Literary Notes: Jeff Goodell's talk in Norfolk about climate change, resiliency and his book "The Water Will Come" is canceled for the third time because of the pandemic. Organizers expect to reschedule it for summer.

An anthology of the late Norman Mailers writing that Random House allegedly scheduled for his centennial in 2023 but backed off from, will be released by Skyhorse Publishing. The publisher

If it’s really true, as Michael Wolff reported Monday for Richard Rushfield’s Hollywood newsletter The Ankler, that Random House will not be

The Associated Press was told on January 4, 2022 that Skyhorse Publishing will release a book of Norman Mailer's writings previously to be published by Random House.