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Top 5 Ancient And Medieval Censored Books To Read During Banned Book Week – As long as people have been writing, others have been banning. From Abelard to Sappho to Ovid and beyond, censorship has been publicly ritualized to emphasize its (alleged) moral and cultural authority. 4. Ovid (Exiled in 8 CE): Although ... more >
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Prince | 1958 – 2016 – The Los Angeles Times has a good collection of features about Prince’s death yesterday. Apparently he collapsed in an elevator on his Minnesota compound, Paisley Park, and could not be revived. The music legend was only 57, but had been briefly hospitalized last week for ... more >
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Amazon steps up Australian book sales through The Book Depository – While Amazon is working to increase its presence in Australia via its subsidiary business, The Book Depository, Australia’s own online retailer, Booktopia, acquired Bookworld, which was the second largest Australian online bookseller. Booktopia’s CEO, Tony Nash, insists that he doesn’t consider ... more >
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Yi-Fen Chou and the Man Who Wore Her – You may be following the fallout from the revelation that one of the poets whose work is included in the Sherman Alexie edited volume of the Best American Poetry 2015 is a white man who assumed the pseudonym of a fictitious ... more >
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Yes, One Book Can Change Your Life, Even In Prison – Reginald Dwayne Betts Jr. is a poet. He is also a memoirist with an MFA and a third (and final) year student at Yale Law School. And he got his start reading and writing poetry in prison, where he ... more >
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A Year Later, #WeNeedDiverseBooks Has Left Its Mark On BookCon – So compared to last year, the organizers of BEA feel like they’ve come a long way, with the help of the #weneeddiversebooks campaign. The international element of this year’s event may have been part of that, too. You can ... more >