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As a result, books like “Call Me Max” have been challenged or outright removed from schools and libraries in Florida, as well as other states — and though some believe book bans lead to more book sales, authors say the effect of those bans is devastating for their careers. These bans “overwhelmingly” target books about race and racism, as well as books with LGBTQ characters, PEN America said in its September study on school book bans. The MoveOn Banned Book Mobile stops for an event with local authors and teachers on October 1, 2023 in Decatur, Georgia. “(A book ban) would make news, and people would say, ‘I’ll buy this book just to show them,’” Lukoff said of the once-common result of book bans. Lukoff said his first high-profile bans occurred in early 2021, in Austin and Salt Lake City, when book bans first started to accelerate.
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In the forthcoming book, a copy of which CNN obtained in advance of its release, Wolff makes a number of shocking and explosive claims. Suzanne Scott feared she would lose her job as chief executive of Fox News amid the Dominion lawsuit, he reports. And Fox sources tell me that Wolff made no attempt to fact check his book with either Fox News or its parent company, Fox Corporation. With Fox News, where an author might be basing major claims using less-than-reliable sources, the risks are more pronounced, making such reporting efforts even more paramount. Fox News, for its part, is choosing not to respond to the specific claims Wolff makes in the book.
Persons: Michael Wolff, Murdoch, , Wolff, Rupert Murdoch, Sean Hannity, Suzanne Scott, Critics, Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk, Isaacson, Musk, Bret Baier, Jesse Watters, , ” Wolff, Murdoch’s, Organizations: CNN, Fox News, Dominion, Elon, Eastern, Musk, Washington Post, Fox Corporation Locations: Manhattan’s Greenwich, Russian, Crimea
[1/3] Director Ethan Hawke poses during the international premiere of "Wildcat" at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 11, 2023. Born in 1925, O’Connor was a highly regarded fiction writer in the Southern Gothic style. In “Wildcat,” which had its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Hawke pulls from the author’s fiction to tell her story. He and his daughter Maya Hawke, the film's star, wanted to showcase O’Connor’s ability to capture the human condition in prose. “I used her own writing to tell the story.”O’Connor’s writing won several literary awards, and she was featured on a postage stamp in 2015.
Persons: Ethan Hawke, Carlos Osorio, Flannery O’Connor, O’Connor, Hawke, Maya Hawke, ” Hawke, , Maye Hawke, , ” Maya Hawke, Laura Linney, Regina, O'Connor, “ She’s, ” Linney, Jenna Zucker, David Gregorio Our Organizations: Toronto, Film, REUTERS, Rights, Loyola University of Maryland, ‘ Loyola University of Maryland, The University of Maryland, Thomson Locations: Toronto , Ontario, Canada, American
We meet Grace when she’s sitting and sweating in traffic — until, no longer able to bear it, she abandons her car and walks away. She is desperate to get to her teenager’s birthday party across town, hoping to make amends after a fight. An 11th-hour reveal — you may find it moving or manipulative — sheds light on Grace’s particular anxieties. I may be proving the author’s point by noting that her central character can be hard to root for. Try as she might, there is no way to separate your hormones from your true self.
Persons: Grace, she’s, Littlewood, Michael Douglas, Grace Adams, Amy Dunne, Bernadette Fox, Barbie, , , ” Littlewood
Her joke was no laughing matter, and the painting is now estimated to fetch as much as $250,000 at auction in September. According to specialists at Bonhams Skinner auction house, the seller unknowingly purchased the work at a Savers thrift store in Manchester, New Hampshire, while searching for frames to reuse. The Wyeth painting had been stashed against a wall along with mostly damaged posters and prints, according to the auction house. Bonhams Skinner auction house expects the painting to fetch between $150,000 and $250,000 at September's auction. Auction house specialists believe the publishing company Little, Brown and Company may have passed the work along to an editor or to the author’s estate.
Persons: Wyeth, Skinner, Bonhams Skinner, Lauren Lewis, Andrew Wyeth, Jamie Wyeth, Lewis, ” Lewis, CNN Wyeth, Helen Hunt, Ramona, , Brown, Paul Allen’s, Andrew Wyeth’s Organizations: The Art, CNN, Boston Globe, Globe, Microsoft, Christie’s Locations: Maine, Manchester , New Hampshire, N.C, York
Carrière’s mother, Jennifer Bartlett (1941-2022), was an American conceptual artist renowned for her “massive canvases” that moved from mathematical abstraction into realism. In 1983, she married the author’s father, Mathieu Carrière, a German intellectual, activist and actor whose first starring role was in “Young Törless,” directed by Volker Schlöndorff. Even before her parents’ divorce, when she was 6, Carrière grew up shuttling back and forth between a 17,000-square-foot townhouse in New York City’s West Village and a penthouse in Paris, according to her parents’ work and social schedules. “It was hard to know what was true in my house,” she writes. “I had taken something of my father’s into me, something intimate — his liquids and his lonely need,” she writes.
Persons: Alice Carrière Alice Carrière’s, Jennifer Bartlett, Bartlett, , Mathieu Carrière, “ Young, Volker Schlöndorff, Carrière, Organizations: New Locations: American, New York City, German, , New York, Paris
(Minerva, $18.99, ages 4 to 8.) THE WALKING SCHOOL BUS, by Aaron Friedland and Ndileka Mandela. Interviews Friedland conducted with children in rural Africa and India inspired this moving tale of two enterprising siblings determined to find a safe way to get to school. A beguiling, anxious ragamuffin whose parents’ nomadic lifestyle lands her at a school where everyone else speaks French learns that imagination can heal. At recess she draws a “giant magic hopscotch,” and the hopscotch draws new friends.
Persons: Bruce Handy, Julie Benbassat, Aaron Friedland, Ndileka Mandela, Andrew Jackson Obol, Friedland, Marie, Louise Gay, ragamuffin, FLORA, Veronica Chambers Organizations: FLORA LA, Sujean Locations: Africa, India, Panamanian
Patrick deWitt Would Like to Eat Sushi With Emily Dickinson
  + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
What’s the last great book you read? I loved the pair of Gwendoline Riley novels NYRB put out last year, “My Phantoms” and “First Love.” I enjoy reading about awful, sickening people, and these books are filled with them. But they’re awful and sickening in a way that, while not unfamiliar to my life experience, felt new — they’re awful and sickening in a way I’d not seen in literature before. Can a great book be badly written? I bought a book called “The Loser,” by William Hoffman Jr., based on its incredible cover (Funk & Wagnalls hardcover edition circa 1968).
Persons: Gary Indiana, Joanne Kyger, , Lucy Sante, Dodie Bellamy, , William Gardner Smith, Bill Berkson, Frank O’Hara, Joe LeSueur, Andy Kaufman, Julie Hecht, What’s, Gwendoline Riley, NYRB, William Hoffman Jr, It’s, Hoffman, Luck Organizations: Phantoms Locations: Japan, India
Fiction-induced nostalgia is a primary concern in the Swedish author’s fifth book and her first to be translated into English. Each of this novel’s four chapters centers on a pivotal, lost relationship in the narrator’s life. The nonlinear structure of “The Details” means the narrator’s children flicker in the periphery as toddlers, then babies, then teenagers. She de-emphasizes her own parenthood as a way to recover some past part of herself that exists outside of being a mother, lover or friend. Books are so crucial to her inquiry because they cannot define the reader the way a child, husband or girlfriend does.
Persons: Kira Josefsson, Paul Auster’s “, Johanna, Auster, , ‘ I’ve, ’ ”, Niki, Birgitta Trotzig’s “, Locations: Swedish
CNN —The Roald Dahl Museum in England, founded by the widow of the children’s author, has acknowledged his racism was “undeniable and indelible.”Dahl, who died in 1990, was the creator of characters such as Matilda, the BFG, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Willy Wonka and the Twits. Now the museum, based in the village of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire where Dahl lived, has posted a statement on its website to say that it “fully” supports an apology released by the Dahl family and Roald Dahl Story Company in 2020 for the author’s antisemitic views. The museum adds that it “condemns all racism directed at any group or individual.”Based in Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, where Dahl lived, the museum has condemned the author's racism. Greg Balfour Evans/AlamyIn the 2020 apology, the Dahl groups said they “deeply apologise for the lasting and understandable hurt” caused by his statements. ‘Providing the full story’The Roald Dahl Museum confirmed to CNN Thursday that the online statement issued this week is also on display in its entrance gallery.
Persons: Roald Dahl, ” Dahl, Matilda, Mr, Fox, Willy Wonka, Dahl, , Greg Balfour Evans, Alamy, Hitler, ” “ Roald, Dahl’s, Marie van der Zyl, Organizations: CNN, Roald Dahl Museum, Roald Dahl Story Company, New Statesman, Jewish Leadership Council, Community Security Trust, Locations: England, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, Missenden
The organization said it was working to become more welcoming by conducting accessible and inclusive recruitment campaigns for staff and trustee positions. “We are working hard to do better and know we have more to do,” the museum said. Since 2021, the museum said, it had been working with multiple Jewish organizations and staff and trustees had received training from the Antisemitism Policy Trust. It was reported that hundreds of words, including descriptions of characters’ appearances, races and genders, had been removed from some of his books. A spokesman for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain, referencing a work by Dahl, told the BBC at the time, “When it comes to our rich and varied literary heritage, the prime minister agrees with the BFG that we shouldn’t gobblefunk around with words.”
Persons: Rishi Sunak, Dahl, Organizations: Trust, BBC Locations: Britain
Water, Water, Everywhere, and Now Her Husband Is Gone
  + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Cj Hauser | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Bishop skillfully invokes and revises the “forbidden passion” trope of a relationship between an older teacher and a young ingénue. The meta-conversation in the book is smart — What does it mean to tell a true story? As J.B. becomes a suspect in Patrick’s death, she returns to Australia for the first time since she got married. They have an uncanny, dreamlike quality, unfolding without J.B. quite being able to participate in them fully. J.B. is a very good narrator, but I suspect she is not recounting her saga for the reader — she’s telling it for herself.
Persons: Bishop, Patrick, , Meg Wolitzer’s “, Liane Moriarty’s “ Locations: Australia
CNN —Sandwiched between a Jiu-Jitsu video and the Threads announcement, Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram profile recently featured a casual Independence Day snapshot of him and his family. This prompted social media comments accusing Zuckerberg of hypocrisy, given the constant outcry over his company Meta’s privacy practices. Mark Zuckerberg posted this picture with his family on Instagram on July 4, 2023. A decade ago, a research team and I interviewed more than 100 parents about their social media use. That’s the real privacy problem of social media, and it affects children and adults alike.
Persons: Priya C, Kumar, Mark Zuckerberg’s, Zuckerberg, Kumar Hayley Wildeson, There’s, Mark Zuckerberg, Ulla Autenrieth, they’ve Organizations: Pennsylvania State University, CNN, Twitter, Facebook Locations: emojis, childrearing, Instagram, Swiss
Over the next several years he picked up money as a jazz musician (he played the piano) and day laborer. And friends sometimes arranged for him to write things under their names or pseudonyms. Inevitably, though, the authorities would learn the true identity of the brilliant nuclear physicist-astrologer, and Mr. Kundera realized with certainty there was no way to protect friends who wanted to help him. In London, the first English translation of “The Joke” had been so botched it was hard to know what to make of it. He wrote an author’s note for it that began, “If it didn’t concern me, it would certainly make me laugh: this is the fifth English-language version of ‘The Joke.’”)
Persons: , , , Kundera Locations: London, Prague
Threaded through her consciousness is a steady reference to nursery rhymes and folklore, the vehicles by which she carries her shame. Ghost stories and folksy tales, as well as novels, embody a history worth exploring. If the truth is subject to debate, perhaps we’re only left with stories to set us free. “Inside the Wolf” is a vital Southern novel that speaks to a violent American legacy. Lauren LeBlanc is a book critic whose writing has appeared in The Times, The Boston Globe and The Atlantic, among other publications.
Persons: Rachel reconnects, ” Rowland, Palmer, Rachel, Rowland, Lauren LeBlanc Organizations: The Times, Boston Globe Locations: Southern, American
Stream These Five Cormac McCarthy Film Adaptations
  + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Chris Vognar | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
The Coen brothers return to the Texas noir roots of their first feature, “Blood Simple,” for the most successful McCarthy adaptation to date. It won Oscars for best picture, directing and screenwriting, as well as Javier Bardem’s supporting turn as one of McCarthy’s nihilistic villains, an implacable killing machine who speaks in riddles and engages his prey in fatal rhetorical jousts. But the heart of the movie, about a briefcase full of money and the in-over-his-head opportunist (Josh Brolin) who pilfers it, is Tommy Lee Jones as a small-town sheriff who wants out of the game, which seems to get more sinister and incomprehensible by the minute. He is the old man of the title and the author’s surrogate, a poetic soul just trying to wait it out until it’s all over. ‘The Road’ (2009)Stream it on Tubi, Vudu and Freevee.
Persons: Coen, McCarthy, Javier Bardem’s, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones Locations: Texas
Opinion: History is not on Donald Trump’s side
  + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Opinion Gautham Rao | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
Editor’s Note: Gautham Rao is associate professor of American and legal history at American University in Washington and editor-in-chief of Law and History Review. CNN —Here we are with another scandal involving former President Donald Trump. Over time, the professionalization of the government workforce would feature the rise of a civil service, the emergence of bureaucratic experts and the establishment of administrative law. The Presidential Records Act of 1978, passed in the wake of President Richard M. Nixon’s Watergate scandal, was another example of this evolving system. In 1974 Congress passed a law specifically to prevent Nixon from withholding records and followed it up a few years later with The Presidential Records Act, which explicitly designates presidential records as public records.
Persons: Gautham Rao, Read, Donald Trump, Trump’s, Trump, Jack Smith’s, Max Weber, Franklin Roosevelt’s, Richard M, Nixon, Donald J Organizations: American University, Law, American State, CNN, National Archives, American, Presidential, Presidential Records, Twitter Locations: Washington, United States, German
Lecher Actress Victim Spy
  + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Alexandra Jacobs | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
LUCKY DOGS, by Helen SchulmanThat Harvey Weinstein hired a private international spy agency called Black Cube to help squash stories about his sex crimes always seemed stranger than fiction. In an author’s note, Helen Schulman states explicitly that her seventh novel, “Lucky Dogs,” was inspired by two players in this globe-spanning chapter of the Weinstein saga. “How could one woman do this to another woman?” Schulman had wondered, reading ragefully about the case. The question might sound naïve: Has she not seen the foundational Hollywood text “All About Eve”? But her imagined answer, in the form of this book, is deeply knowing, properly indignant and — maybe the best revenge — very funny.
Persons: Helen Schulman, Harvey Weinstein, , Weinstein, Rose McGowan, Stella Penn Pechanac, McGowan, ” Schulman, Eve ”, Schulman, refashioned McGowan, Meredith “ Merry ”, who’s Organizations: Twitter Locations: Meredith “ Merry ” Montgomery, Paris
Opinion: What Trump gets right on Ukraine
  + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( Opinion Daniel R. Depetris | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +8 min
For many political pundits and politicians, his observations on the war in Ukraine were no exception. Asa Hutchinson, who is challenging Trump for the 2024 nomination, declared that “Trump reminded everyone tonight of his support of Russia and his willingness to sell out Ukraine. The major difference between the Biden administration and Trump on the Ukraine question seems to be not whether talks should happen, but when. Another point Trump gets right is the vast disparity between the US and its European allies on the issue of assistance to Ukraine, even if his grossly exaggerates the amount of US aid. Join us on Twitter and FacebookTo be clear, some of what Trump said at the town hall about Ukraine was incorrect.
CNN —Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has had to explain decades of omissions on his annual financial reports. As a Supreme Court justice, Thomas routinely interprets complex statutes that affect millions of Americans, priding himself on close adherence to the text. It beggars belief that he could repeatedly misinterpret plain statutory requirements and simple instructions on his annual disclosure reports. Supreme Court justices have life tenure. That is why full compliance with financial disclosure laws is so important, and why Thomas’ evasiveness is so wrong.
I became hyper-critical of myself, as if the defense attorney had set up shop in my own mind. Horrible moments of our lives and how defense attorneys frame them can become public fodder. The goal of a defense attorney seems to be to break the survivor giving testimony. I see a screenshot of text of an exchange between Carroll and Joseph Tacopina, defense attorney for Trump. The National Sexual Assault Hotline is 1-800-656-4673 and provided by RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) 24/7.
The book, called “Love in the Library,” is aimed at six- to nine-year-olds. Published last year by a small children’s publisher, Candlewick Press, it drew glowing reviews, but sales were modest. So Tokuda-Hall was thrilled when Scholastic, a publishing giant that distributes books and resources in 90 percent of schools, said last month it wanted to license her book for use in classrooms. Scholastic wanted her to delete references to racism in America from her author’s note, in which she addresses readers directly. Tokuda-Hall’s revelations sparked an outcry among children’s book authors and brought intense scrutiny to the editorial process of the world’s largest children’s publisher.
THE FERRYMAN, by Justin CroninFor a science-fictional utopia created by a reclusive “Designer,” the world of “The Ferryman” bears a startling resemblance to the well-heeled strata of, say, San Francisco or New York. The art is bad, and no one seems to realize it. There’s something mildly intoxicating, in fact, about entering this utopia, called Prospera, because Cronin’s shrewd world-building allows us to have it both ways: We sink into aspirational fantasy even as we relish the author’s sly commentary on a certain species of coastal elite. (Prospera is an island, after all.) Rather than undergo the indignities of birth and death, old or infirm Prosperans are sent by ferry to a mysterious island called the Nursery, where their memories are wiped and their bodies rejuvenated, so they can return as hale 16-year-olds with new identities.
She’s More Than the Creator of Peter Rabbit
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Tanya Mohn | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
This article is part of our Museums special section about how art institutions are reaching out to new artists and attracting new audiences. Beatrix Potter’s tales about the frolics and misadventures of Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddle-Duck and other animals have charmed children around the globe for well over a century. Now, a new traveling exhibition explores how the English artist and author’s passion and curiosity for the natural world and scientific study inspired her books — and her life. “She creates these little enchanting, watercolor worlds and fills them with characters in gardens and ponds,” said Trinita Kennedy, a senior curator at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, where “Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature” is on view through Sept. 17. It closed there in January, and after its run at the Frist it will head to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Morgan Library & Museum in New York.
New York CNN —Universal Music Group — the music company representing superstars including Sting, The Weeknd, Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande — has a new Goliath to contend with: artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence, and specifically AI music, learns by either training on existing works on the internet or through a library of music given to the AI by humans. That could possibly threaten UMG’s deep library of music and artists that generate billions of dollars in revenue. “However, the training of generative AI using our artists’ music … begs the question as to which side of history all stakeholders in the music ecosystem want to be on.”The company said AI that uses artists’ music violates UMG’s agreements and copyright law. Grammy-winning DJ and producer David Guetta proved in February just how easy it is to create new music using AI.
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