North Carolina has joined a nationwide effort to improve outcomes for released prisoners, focusing on education, health care and housing. Gov. Roy Cooper signed an executive order aiming to reduce recidivism through training and workforce tools for freed prisoners. Over 18,000 people are released annually from North Carolina correctional facilities and face obstacles due to […]
Legislation introduced by Democratic Sen. David Yates aims to address issues in Kentucky’s school transportation systems. The proposed bill would permit district-owned and district-leased vehicles to transport students to and from school and approved activities. Safety standards and training requirements would be established for drivers, including background checks and reviews of driving records. Legislation allowing
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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1935, Richard Brautigan is born. Source link
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The following is from Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir by Ai Weiwei with Elettra Stamboulis, illustrated by Gianluca Constantini. __________________________________ From Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir by Ai Weiwei with Elettra Stamboulis, illustrated by Gianluca Constantini. Copyright © 2024. Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.
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January 30, 2024, 4:55am The wheel of this newest of years keeps turning, and that means that the end of January is just about here. It feels astonishing, at least to me, that so much time has passed already. But there can be comfort in little constants when the clock seems to be moving too
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Gregory Pardlo’s poetry collection Spectral Evidence is available today from Knopf, so we asked him a few questions about his readers, when he writes, and his favorite book to recommend to others. * Who do you most wish would read your book? (your boss, your childhood bully, etc.) Maybe someone in the NYC Parks Dept.
Book banning is a chaotic and illogical business. How a book is received or understood is often subject to the historical moment—and the tastes of individuals. The notion of an objective measure or checklist to decide what is “appropriate”—something far-right school boards have worked to police and enforce—has long been slippery to define. In the
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The Critic and Her Publics is a live interview series that asks the best and most prominent critics working today to perform criticism on the spot, on an object they’ve never seen before. It’s a glimpse into brilliant minds at work, performing their thinking, taking risks, and making spontaneous judgments, which are sometimes right and
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Forty years ago, Padgett Powell’s erudite coming of age novel Edisto was released and introduced readers to a 12-year-old literary prodigy named Simons Everson Manigault. Following an acrimonious separation between the “Duchess” and the “Progenitor” (Simons’ parents), the young boy finds himself living in the Manigault summer home in Edisto, South Carolina while his mother descends
The following is from Kiley Reid’s Come and Get It. Reid is the author of Such a Fun Age, which was a New York Times bestseller and longlisted for the Booker Prize. Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, The Guardian, and others. Reid is currently an
