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https://www.blackdograrebooks.com/post/top-25-websites-to-fuel-your-book-obsession

Top 25 Websites for Book Lovers: Fuel Your Book Obsession Explore the top 25 websites for book lovers, including resources for identifying prints, rare book podcasts, historical paper research, and much more.

NFS

Photographer, composer, director, novelist and poet.
Trailblazer and hero of mine.

All four books in this quartet. In a custom slipcase.

Welp.

Reading now.

Current mood.

SOLD

He found my address online, next to my email yet chose to write to me to inquire if I had a book that I suspect he saw I had. This book is on the way to the best home I could ever imagine.

okay,

A day late but happy 100th to the truly unforgettable .

Great show tonight.

The shepherd and his sheep, will wind you to sleep

Where else on earth would you wanna go?

To a land of wonder, when you go under

Why would we want to come back at all?

https://reason.com/2023/08/09/why-kamala-harris-wont-be-asked-about-the-su***de-of-a-newspaper-man-she-persecuted/

Why Kamala Harris won't be asked about the su***de of a newspaper man she persecuted When it comes to conflicts with people engaged in unpopular or disfavored speech, too many journalists side with the feds.

Obrigado!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/07/30/arkansas-book-ban-judge-injunction/

Judge blocks Ark. law banning librarians from giving minors ‘harmful’ books The injunction temporarily blocks a law that would expose librarians and booksellers to potential jail or fines for providing minors with material deemed harmful to them.

https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/how-to-ban-3600-books-from-school?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

How to ban 3600 books from school libraries This year, at least 102 books have been removed from the shelves of school libraries in Clay County, Florida. Many of these books were pulled at the request of one man: Bruce Friedman. A conservative activist and longtime resident of New York, Friedman moved to Clay County this May.

RIP to an OG

From Frank Uhle’s How Campus Rebels Forged a Singular Film Culture (University of Michigan Press 2023).
A 1967 screening of ’s was stopped over hysteria of “porn” on campus. The legal wrangling and adjacent events include Paul Krassner, the Velvet Underground and Lawrence Kasdan.

https://bookriot.com/hoopla-overdrive-libby-now-banned-for-those-under-18-in-mississippi/

Hoopla, Overdrive/Libby Now Banned for Those Under 18 in Mississippi Public libraries in Mississippi have cut off access to digital platforms like Overdrive and Hoopla to those under 18.