"Donald Barthelme grew up listening to cool jazz and going to the movies, but also attending Catholic school and, from his mid-teens, getting drunk: these things also fed into his fiction.... An active member of PEN America from the early 1970s, he organised conferences..." (1/2)

"Putin’s campaign to restrict history that can be taught in schools... bears all the hallmarks of an authoritarian government... it also parallels ominous trends unfolding in our own schools," write @jzfriedman and @PSadovskaya2020 https://thehill.com/opinion/education/3594234-floridas-war-on-public-education-looks-a-lot-like-russias/ #Russia #Florida

School district slaps warning labels on books with #LGBTQ characters

Even the innocuous picture book "Everywhere Babies" got a warning label "like something you might see on a cigarette package."

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/school-district-slaps-warning-labels-books-lgbtq-characters/ via @lgbtqnation #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA