At Grove Press, he and Barney Rosset challenged censors as they popularized D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and others. Read more
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Michelle T. Boone Named President of Poetry Foundation
Boone, a former cultural commissioner for Chicago, will take the helm after tumult over racial justice at the foundation, one of the country’s wealthiest literary organizations. Read more
Publishers Draw Fire for Signing Trump Officials
Kellyanne Conway, Mike Pence and William Barr have book deals. That is raising new challenges for publishers trying to balance ideological lines with a desire to continue representing the political spectrum. Read more
Al Young, Poet With a Musical Bent, Is Dead at 81
Mr. Young, who served for three years as California’s poet laureate and also wrote about jazz, was known for his readings, which often incorporated music. Read more
What Snoop Dogg’s Success Says About the Book Industry
Will the shifts brought on by the pandemic, favoring online retailers over bookstores and established authors over new ones, change publishing forever? Read more
Denis Donoghue, Humanist Literary Critic, Dies at 92
He wrote prodigiously while teaching, first in Dublin and then in New York, and often clashed with critics he considered too political. Read more
Books About Racism and Police Violence Fill Out List of ‘Most Challenged’ Titles
After a year dominated by protests against police killings of Black Americans, the books on the list of the most frequently challenged titles of 2020 reflected the movement — and the backlash to it. Read more
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Decades After His Death, Richard Wright Has a New Book Out
“The Man Who Lived Underground,” a novel publishers rejected in the 1940s, is about an innocent Black man forced to confess to the murder of a white couple. Read more
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The 15th-Century Wool Worker’s Son Who Made Books for Princes and Popes
“The Bookseller of Florence,” by Ross King, tells the history of Renaissance bookmaking through the story of Vespasiano da Bisticci, who rose from humble roots to dominate the trade. Read more
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Marshall D. Sahlins, Groundbreaking Anthropologist, Dies at 90
His work focused on the way cultures shape, and are shaped by, individuals — a framework he demonstrated through his passionate political activism. Read more
