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The newest chapter in the saga of the Campbell County Public Library was written Friday afternoon, as the Campbell County Public Library board voted 4-1 in a special meeting to ....
Orlin Wagner What would you say if you learned the CEO of a prominent bookselling consortium was caught emailing racist images? If you’re unsure, here’s your opportunity to find out. On Wednesday, Allison Hill chief executive officer for nonprofit trade group American Booksellers Association issued a letter of apology. The head of the independent book store-promoting organization expressed remorse over incorporating a particular book cover in a collection on the official website. As reported by The Daily Wire, the post was meant to provide publicity for black fiction writers. Allison had intended to spotlight a teen romance collection by authors Dhonielle Clayton, Angie Thomas, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon. ....
Occasionally, librarians reach out to me because of my first book. Shut Up! The Bizarre War That One Public Library Waged Against the First Amendment detailed my writing partner’s and my extremely entertaining three-year fight with the Orland Park Public Library that was overtaken by far-left radicals who insisted men had a right to sexually satiate themselves in public using publicly-funded computers. The fight was epic and it ended in a windfall lawsuit that went our way. That doesn’t happen very often. But besides the criminal element of the story, the underlying thread we unraveled was that the social justice dogma that demanded the bastardization of our First Amendment was coming from the American Library Association that runs libraries and crushes dissenters with an iron fist. ....