Culture and Politics

PRH sued Iowa over its new book-banning legislation on the basis it violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution.

Controversy broke out last week when reports emerged that young writers in particular were unhappy with forum moderation.

After five months on strike, the Writers Guild of America has reached a tentative deal with studios, with good news for writers.

Remember the 2021 New York Times Magazine piece “Bad Art Friend”? The upshot is that two writers ended up suing one another in court.

The US Department of Education announced that Matt Nosanchuk has joined as Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office for Civil Rights.

Computer scientist and computational linguist Benji Smith took down his site Prosecraft after authors expressed outrage at its existence.

Primary concerns are like those of the WGA: the problematic economics of streaming and the use of AI.

Some Ukrainian readers were alleging the novel romanticizes Russia, even though they had not read the book.

PEN America—along with Penguin Random House, authors, and parents—has filed suit in federal court.

Love in the Library is a picture book about how the author’s Japanese-American grandparents met at an internment camp during World War II.

The Biden administration suggests it will ban TikTok if not sold to a US-based company, but China has indicated it will oppose a forced sale.

Last month, the Telegraph reported it had found hundreds of changes in the latest UK editions of Dahl’s children’s books.

Last week, Colleen Hoover announced an adult coloring book would be published based on her novel It Ends with Us.

When its sister publication, Artforum, was sold to Penske Media, Bookforum became financially untenable without Artforum’s income.

Bob Dylan posted on Facebook that, owing to a combination of vertigo and the pandemic, he wasn’t able to sign art prints or his latest book.

Editors and authors agree it’s okay to write outside your lived experience, as long as you do your homework.

Hosted by Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri, If Books Could Kill focuses on “airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds.”

Current alternatives can’t replace Twitter, but uncertainty and chaos seem likely to plague those who remain.

Hamish McKenzie, one of the founders of Substack, has launched a podcast, Active Voice, “about how great writers reckon with the internet.”

In late September, Hobart published an interview with Cuban-American writer Alex Perez, which included some controversial statements.

The White House changed a longstanding US policy, forcing publishers to make publicly funded research available immediately to the public.

Comparable to the Authors Guild in the United States, the Society of Authors in the UK is the country’s leading union of professional authors.

Writers can sign up for a casting call for a chance to pitch their book idea to a panel of experts.

The show is hosted by Susan Orlean and Hrishikesh Hirway and is a spin-off of the popular show Song Exploder.

A new pick will be announced every month, and there will be a #BookClub hub in the app.