Author Protest Prompts Seuss Museum to Replace Mural
The first Children’s Literature Festival was to take place this weekend at The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss museum in Springfield, Massachusetts, but protests from some scheduled participants over a mural has caused a shake-up both of the festival and of the museum’s exhibit itself. In question is a mural from Dr. Seuss’ first book which authors Mike Curato, Mo Willems, and Lisa Yee called an “obviously offensive” drawing of a Chinese man. The three authors withdrew from the festival in protest of the mural. The museum has since taken down the mural and says they will replace it.
25 Years of Poetry on the New York City Subway
This year marks the 25th anniversary the MTA’s Poetry in Motion program, which puts posters of poems in New York City subway cars. The program was started in 1992, but fell fallow for a time before being reinvigorated in 2012. To date, more than 200 poems have appeared in subways as part of the program.
Writing Science Fiction in Trump’s America
In a long essay for The LA Times, John Scalzi mulls the particular challenge for a science fiction writer in Trump’s America. Scalzi writes that when the whole world feels unsettled, then it’s hard to know what trajectory to follow, which of a range of immediately frightening possibilities to pursue. The task would be easier, he suggests, if the world could perhaps settle for a minute: “Then I could get back to writing work that’s minimally allegorical and not, intentionally or otherwise, something that looks like straight-up reportage.”
Today in Books is sponsored by 27 Hours by Tristina Wright from Entangled Teen.
Rumor Mora fears two things: hellhounds he can’t kill, and failure. Jude Welton has two dreams: for humans to stop killing monsters, and for his strange abilities to vanish.
But can a boy who loves monsters fall for a boy who kills them?
Nyx Llorca keeps two secrets: the moon speaks to her, and she’s in love with her BFF, Dahlia. Braeden Tennant wants two things: to leave his mother’s shadow, and to unlearn Epsilon’s darkest secret.
If they can’t stop the war of extinction, their wishes will never come true, and the things they fear will be all that’s left.
