I’m a big fan of tee shirts with “reading” or book-oriented messages. I LOVE ABFFE’s “Freadom” shirts, for instance, and own several of them. What first caught my eye about Monsters of Grok was the company name. How many readers even know the word “grok?” Thousands, probably, but millions? Maybe not. How many shirts can they hope …
There are a whole lot of writers who don’t wear the uniform. The book world is full of them—librarians and booksellers who support the words of others every day of their working lives. Meanwhile, they belong to writers groups, have novels in the works or write a daily poem. The Pacific Northwest Reader gives voice—and …
The Media Coalition announced today that a U.S. District Judge in Massachusetts has granted a preliminary injunction against the enforcement of a state law that went into effect earlier this year. Massachusetts booksellers, trade associations, and the ACLU of Massachusetts filed suit in July to block the online censorship law because it imposes severe restrictions …
Almost exactly one month after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals invalidated two Oregon laws that could have put booksellers and librarians in jeopardy of jail time, the federal district court in Anchorage, Alaska granted a preliminary injunction today halting the enforcement of that state’s recently adopted Senate Bill 222, “which could have made anyone …
In a major ruling for bookstores and libraries, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today struck down two Oregon statutes that criminalized the distribution of sex education and other non-obscene materials. The Media Coalition in New York issued a press statement at about 1:30 pm on Monday, September 20 that said in part: “The State …
