Smith revisits her childhood and offers insights into her marriage in a new memoir. Bread of Angels offers an intimate, if imperfect, view of the visionary punk poet.

While they wait for Gov. Jeff Landry to potentially call a legislative special session, organizers of the Louisiana Book Festival are preparing to move programming out of the State Capitol. "We don't ...

Over 3,700 unique books were banned during the 2024-2025 school year, more than double the number of titles PEN America tracked in the 2021-2022 school year when it began counting. The nonprofit, ...

Banned Books Week, held from October 5-11, highlights censorship and celebrates the freedom to read. Despite an increase in book challenges, a 2022 poll found that 71% of Americans surveyed oppose ...

Stephen King has become the most banned author in U.S. schools, according to PEN America’s 2024–2025 report. Over 6,800 books were removed, primarily in Florida, Texas, and Tennessee, often as ...

Like many of you, no doubt, Ursula K. Le Guin is one of my favourite sci-fi writers. So I am really excited about a collection out this month that brings together the maps she would draw when starting ...

Step-by-step builds beat full-spec instructions for AI coding. AIs can destroy code as quickly as they create it. Use AGENTS.md, screenshots, and refactoring to keep projects stable. Last week, I put ...

The Education Department said Wednesday that it is partnering with conservative organizations to present educational programming about patriotism, liberty and what it described as American values, as ...

With The Summer I Turned Pretty‘s third and final season coming to an end, fans of the Prime Video series are turning to Jenny Han’s sacred summer texts for clues about where Belly (Lola Tung), Conrad ...

Page Turners, a monthly Wednesday afternoon gathering, invites readers to connect over thought-provoking contemporary novels. Adult programming includes crafts and library workshops. Programs begins ...

Columbus, Ohio — After the death in July of their father, Dan Pelzer, at the age of 92, John and Marci Pelzer discovered something extraordinary in his things — a very long list of every book he had ...