The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Texas has agreed to expedite oral arguments in the appeal of the preliminary injunction blocking the state of Texas’s cumbersome “READER” book banning law. (The injunction was stayed pending appeal, meaning the law is in force until further action from the appeals court.) A full schedule has the case due to be fully briefed by November 3.
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New Books Publishing October 10
Walter Mosley, Banana Yoshimoto, and Jhumpa Lahiri publish new fiction this week, while new nonfiction includes work by Werner Herzog, Roxane Gay, Julia Fox and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Also out this week are new books by Isa Arsén, Charlene Carr, Justin Torres, Bryan Washington, and Kacen Callender, all excerpted in our Buzz Books 2023 collections. 22 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-october-10 14 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-october-10 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months […]
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November Indie Next List
The ABA chose Jesmyn Ward's Let Us Descend as its No. 1 pick for November.
Nobel Peace Prize
Narges Mohammadi, author of White Torture: Interviews with Iranian Women Prisoners, received the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize "for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all."