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There is so much to complain about in the book world at the current moment, from Amazon’s stranglehold on book retail to the increasing usage of generative AI to replace writers and artists of all kinds. But you’re reading this column on Thursday; I turned it in on Tuesday, Election Day. I have no idea what the world looks like for us right now, but what I do know for sure is that we could all use some good news. Here are some things that are making me feel optimistic about book culture in general. We are mobilizing against book bans. If book bans have been wildly proliferating over the past few years, then a broad coalition of organizations have emerged to oppose them. From PEN America and the ALA to We Need Diverse Books to Authors Against Book Bans, these groups have been empowering librarians, parents, students, and authors alike to fight back. And now a publisher has created a role specifically devoted to the fight against book bans. Penguin Random House has hired Rosalie Stewart as a senior manager of public policy to join PRH’s Intellectual Freedom Taskforce. Here’s hoping that more litigation , brought by a corporation that can afford the expense, will follow. No matter who has won this presidential election, we have a lot of work to do, so it’s nice to know that so many of us are gearing up for a fight. Book blogging is back. The popularity of newsletter platforms like Substack and Ghost will not cure all of what is wrong with current day media, but their success has, at least, brought back a kind of personal writing that I thought was gone forever. But now it feels like voice and personality-driven blogs that had their golden age in the early aughts are officially back. And with more blogging comes exposure to voices different from the ones that are regularly published in traditional publications, or the ones that are the loudest on social media. If you’re looking for inspiration, I love reading criticism by Becca Rothfeld , John Warner , […]
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This week’s story, “ Between the Shadow and the Soul ,” is about a fifty-year-old woman named Eliza who has
The British realist director Mike Leigh loves the term “character actor,” which he uses often and with zeal. To him,
