reading
Kanye West used his platform to share that he hasn’t “read any book,” and one of the world’s most beloved and distinguished champions of literacy had thoughts. LeVar Burton shared a HuffPost tweet which noted the father of four and head of a purportedly questionable new school is “repulsed by literature, comparing books to a vegetable often […]
Lea Michele has addressed a conspiracy theory floating around online that she’s illiterate. “I went to Glee every single day; I knew my lines every single day,” Michele said in an interview with the New York Times. “And then there’s a rumor online that I can’t read or write? It’s sad. It really is. I think often if I […]
An assistant principal at a Mississippi elementary school has landed himself in hot water after reading a humorous children’s book titled I Need a New Butt! to a class of second graders. CNN reports Toby Price, assistant principal at Gary Road Elementary School in Byram, Mississippi, was fired last week after reading the book to a Zoom class of […]
Britney Spears has reportedly locked in one of the biggest book deals ever. Page Six says the pop superstar secured a deal that could be worth as much as $15 million with publishing house Simon & Schuster. The “tell-all” memoir will cover her career and family life. An insider told the outlet Spears was at the center of a bidding […]
Whoopi Goldberg expressed her “sincerest apologies” on Twitter Monday after saying that the Holocaust wasn’t “about race” in a recent segment on The View. Her comments came as the show’s hosts were discussing a Tennessee school district banning Art Spiegelman’s poignant graphic novel about the Holocaust, Maus. After the panelists focused on whether nudity—cited as a reason to cease teaching […]
A mayor in Mississippi is being accused of withholding $110,000 in funds from a library over its inclusion of LGBTQ+ reading material, per NBC News. WLBT reports that Mayor Gene McGee of Ridgeland claimed library goers complained about three children’s books and one book for adults, all of which either referenced the community or featured themes or characters, according to executive […]
Nearly 63 years after it was actually supposed to be back, a very, very overdue book has finally been returned to the Fenham Library in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. BBC News reports that the work, a first edition copy of Darrell Huff’s How to Lie with Statistics, was supposed to be back on November 25, 1958. Accompanying the severely behind return was […]
Jay-Z‘s Roc Nation is launching a new imprint alongside Random House, with new books on the way from Lil Uzi Vert and Meek Mill, among others. “There are so many untold stories and we consider it a true privilege to be able to amplify diverse voices while exploring the uncharted worlds that are about to open […]
On January 5 of next year you’ll be able to buy a children’s book authored by Lil Nas X. That news was announced via a tweet in which the man behind “Old Town Road” also revealed the name of the book. Appropriately it’ll be called C Is for Country, which may or may not be a nod […]
Game of Thrones originator George R.R. Martin detailed his appreciation for J.R.R. Tolkien and his Lord of the Rings series while attending the premiere of the biopic Tolkien. During his green carpet appearance, the 70-year-old A Song of Ice and Fire author explained to Variety how Tolkien shaped the genre Martin is now famous for occupying, and how the Lord of the Rings creator influenced the world of Thrones. “He made […]
