A new book fair option is gaining momentum... be warned.

I will never recover from this student email.

Just utterly disappointed.

Increasingly convinced the core divide in humanity is between those who suffer a traumatic, destabilizing event (as we all do) and believe everybody else should have to, too, and those who suffer such an event and hope they are the last person ever to do so.

"Just as critics predicted, all this vagueness and uncertainty is actively encouraging local education officials to sweep ever more broadly, undertaking more and more book removals in a kind of ever-expanding vortex. In this, one might argue, those laws are functioning exactly as intended."

I, and I don't think I can emphasize this enough, really despise wars.

The New York Public Library To Launch Nationwide “Books For All: Protect the Freedom to Read” In Response to Unprecedented Rise in Censorship. Campaign launches during Banned Books Week and includes unlimited access to select books that have been the subject of bans and/or challenges.

The attacks on books and on the freedom to learn are calculated to render our histories, our communities, and our families invisible. Through book challenges and bans, the far right is attempting to erase LGBTQ+ people and people of color—and we will not let them succeed.

Please… I’ve cleaned up pee, blood, puke, dead animals. I’ve seen fist fights, custody disputes, attempted kidnappings. Syringes in the bathroom, a cleaver wielding manic, a regular patron arrested for murder.

We see all the stuff in this “list” before we eat lunch for the day.

Librarians on the Front Lines: A Reading List for Library Lovers and Realists.

Excellent news. I'm looking forward to seeing (and voting on) the deal.

www.nytimes.com/live/2023/09...

Fuck the studios
Hell yeah to the workers.

I’ve always try to sound the alarm about book bans and how extreme it will become. This is utterly ridiculous and I am utterly unsurprised. We are in a very dangerous time.