June 24, 2017

This week: a British author has been honored by the Queen, the New York Times discusses moderating comments sections, two Americans have won the Carnegie and Greenaway prizes, publishers are coming to the defense of Greenpeace, police in Benghazi are burning books, Emma Watson is hiding books around Paris, and a book full of blank pages is a bestseller on Amazon, again. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.
This episode is sponsored by Virginia Comicon, coming up July 8th and 9th on the VCU campus in Richmond, VA. aois21 will be on hand with aois21 titles and new merchandise and we’ll be interviewing cosplayers about the stories behind their elaborate gear. Visit events.aois21.com for more information.
It is also sponsored by American Presidents at War, a new nonfiction scholarly review by Thomas P. Athridge. Now available for preorder at market.aois21.com
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