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"Where the Crawdads Sing" author wanted for questioning in on-camera murder from 1996

Jul 15 2022: In 1996, Delia Owens and her husband Mark were the subjects of an ABC documentary, "Deadly Game: The Mark and Delia Owens Story", about their work trying to save elephants from poachers in Zambia. During the production, an alleged poacher's murder was filmed and now, ...

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Booksellers fight inflation while books remain a bargain for readers

Jul 15 2022: In today's Washington Post Book Club, Ron Charles makes an important point about what a bargain books are: The price of a book in 2022 is only about twice what it was in 1981 which is less than half the rate of inflation. He goes on to highlight the immense pressure ...

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Publishing gets the reality show treatment with 'America’s Next Great Author'

Jul 13 2022: America’s Next Great Author takes more than a little inspiration from American Idol’s format—the plan is for “tryouts” to take place in cities across the country, with would-be authors delivering their one-minute pitches to industry professionals. The field will be ...

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Ada Limón named 24th U.S. Poet Laureate

Jul 12 2022: Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden today announced the appointment of Ada Limón as the nation’s 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2022-2023. Limón will take up her duties in the fall, opening the Library’s annual literary season on Sept. 29 with a reading of ...

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Is the book sales boom finally over?

Jul 11 2022: After soaring 18.9% in the first half of 2021 over the comparable period in 2020, unit sales of print books retreated in the first half of 2022, dropping 6.6% from 2021 levels. According to NPD BookScan, total first-half print sales were 362.6 million, down from 386.6 ...

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Groundbreaking study explores trauma, stress in frontline library workers

Jul 08 2022: The 2022 Urban Libraries Unite Trauma Study draws upon a wide-ranging literature review, survey responses from more than 435 urban library workers, focus groups, and a two-day forum...

The report describes a range of violent or aggressive patron behavior toward ...

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With rising book bans, librarians have come under attack

Jul 06 2022: As highly visible and politicized book bans have exploded across the country, librarians — accustomed to being seen as dedicated public servants in their communities — have found themselves on the front lines of an acrimonious culture war, with their careers and their ...

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Jesmyn Ward becomes youngest person to win Library of Congress lifetime achievement award

Jul 01 2022: The 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction will be awarded to Jesmyn Ward. Ward, aged 45, is the youngest person to receive the lifetime achievement award, which honors "an American literary writer whose body of work is distinguished not only for its ...

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