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Print Musician-turned-mystery-writer Corey Lynn Fayman took top honors in the 2021 San Diego Book Awards for “Ballast Point Breakdown,” a wisecracking novel that features a guitar-playing detective, Navy SEALs, and trained dolphins. The book received the Geisel Award, a best-in-show prize named after Ted “Dr. Seuss” Geisel, who wrote many of his best-selling and influential children’s books while living in La Jolla. “Ballast Point Breakdown” is the fourth book by Fayman, who has also worked day jobs as a keyboard player, sound-designer, and college instructor. All the stories feature Rolly Waters, an eccentric detective the author created (he writes on his website) out of “boredom and a warped sense of literary ambition.” ....
By Mark Pratt, Associated Press Published May 4, 2021 Sept. 24, 2013, file photo, Courtney Keating, education coordinator of The Literacy Center in Evansville, Ind., reads “If I Ran the Zoo,” By Dr. Seuss, to passersby during an event to promote literacy along the Evansville Riverfront. (Erin McCracken/Evansville Courier & Press via AP, File) Six Dr. Seuss books including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “If I Ran the Zoo” will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author’s legacy said Tuesday. “These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises told The Associated Press in a statement that coincided with the late author and illustrator’s birthday. ....