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Some of the literary world’s biggest-selling authors and names — including Judy Blume, James Patterson, poet Amanda Gorman and civil rights activist Ruby Bridges — are joining forces and donating millions to fight book bans in Florida and across the country. A group of 23 authors have donated more than $3.6 million to go toward…

More than 3,300 books have been banned during the 2022-2023 school year, a 33% increase from the previous school year, PEN America reports.

In the last few years, there has been an unprecedented wave of book bans and censorship spurred by parents and conservative groups.

Olivia Rodrigo has shared quite a few book recommendations over the years — see her picks

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Andrew Sean Greer receives a surprise gift from friends Torquill Campbell and Daniel Handler on the upcoming episode of the SongWriter podcast.

Rachel Ingalls’s fiction stages encounters between unhappy housewives and the uncanny.

Since we’ve recently been reminiscing about the much-missed Film Fest in Traverse City, I’ve been thinking about old films that might be fun to see again.

Fundamentalism can creep its way into any space. I’m using the word fundamentalism here to say: non-negotiably following any subject’s basic rules. At first, these rules seem a nice set of concepts to cling onto. They set boundaries. “I stand for THIS! Not THAT,” fundamentalism proudly and boldly proclaims. It is illuminating to learn something’s rules, at first. They help guide us in the right direction. But, at some point, the “rules” might just start holding us back. At some poi...

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