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Making a Killing: What is the world’s most valuable vinyl?
A turning point in life of the counterculture icon John Lennon arrived with the simple proclamation: “[The Beatles] are more popular than Jesus now”.
LGBTQ Nation on MSN1d
Most book ban requests are coming from organizations & officials. They’re targeting LGBTQ+ authors.
Seven of 10 of the most banned books in American libraries featured LGBTQ+ characters, according to the latest banned books ...
All Politics Is Local. In This Novel, It’s Incestuous.
Mitch Caddo, the narrator of Jon Hickey’s debut novel, “Big Chief,” introduces himself with a summary of his LinkedIn profile ...
Bill bans book banning
Assembly Bill 416 forces a person, committee, agency or other entity to go to a court in order to ban a book at a public ...
Book Review: Katie Kitamura’s new novel about an actor explores idea that ‘all the world’s a stage’
Katie Kitamura begins her latest novel “Audition” in a restaurant where an older woman meets a younger man for lunch. She is ...
Nation on MSN6d
Of prodigal son and the lonely protagonist: Ruto’s Mt Kenya tour
Almost every protagonist in literature is lonely. Charlotte Brontë's character Jane Eyre (in the novel Jane Eyre), Jane Austen’s Elizabeth Bennet (in Pride and Prejudice), Charles Dickens’ Pip (in ...