In Catalyst news, two of our wonderful authors got works published this week! In New Frame, Unmaking Grace author Barbara Boswell writes on the role of Booker shortlisted author Tsitsi Dangarembga’s art and activism in Zimbabwe and beyond, and The Lion’s Binding Oath author Ahmed Ismail Yusuf evaluates what the death of George Floyd and – just a few months later and a few blocks away – the death of Somali-American Dolal Idd means for the future of the American police force.
In celebrity book news, E.L. James, famed author of the Fifty Shades of Grey series, announced a new book in the series to be published this summer: Freed, written from Christian Grey’s perspective. Fans of the cult television series “American Horror Story” are reading Dante’s The Divine Comedy after a fan theory went viral, and a self-published cookbook by Andy Warhol is going to auction later this month and is expected to sell for no less than $30,000. And ICYMI (although I don’t see how), Dr. Seuss‘ publishing house has made the decision to cease printing of six of the author’s earlier children’s books, including McElligot’s Pool and And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, on account of racist imagery and derogatory character portrayals. Read up on the debate, then check out this Guardian piece on the history of removing racist sections from children’s books and one poet’s response on Book Riot.
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