Tiffany Yates Martin

Censorship (the real kind) sweeps the country (This week in books)

March 25, 2022 by Nathan Bransford 24 Comments

This week! Books! While newspaper editorials continue to clutch their pearls about “cancel culture” (say it with me: SHAMING IS NOT CENSORSHIP), there is real honest-to-god censorship sweeping the country, particularly targeting antiracist and LBGTQ books, with plenty of others caught in the crossfire. Two articles this week profile people fighting back: Odette Yousef at […]

Amazon to launch…department stores (This week in books)

August 20, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! In a bid to prove that time is a flat circle, Amazon is developing plans to launch…department stores. Yes, really. The first stores will reportedly be in Ohio and California and will sell all sorts of things and facilitate returns. In yet another step in the publishing industry’s long, long history of […]