- Dav Pilkey is a superhero for the way he introduced a gay character into his Captain Underpants series (newnownext.com)
- New Zealand’s first banned book in 22 years is a YA novel containing “offensive language and gratuitous sexual imagery” (CNN).
- The humiliation of begging for author blurbs (Huffington Post).
- Dennis Cooper’s GIF “novel” reads like a “a broken, dropping elevator” (The New Yorker).
- White poet who assumed Chinese pseudonym to enter The Best American Poetry anthology is defended by guest editor Sherman Alexie (The Guardian).
- Happy birthday, Amazon. Twenty years of online selling (Publishers Weekly)
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