Of course, it's a win after a long fight. "Amazon has done the right thing for once! In this case, the right thing is closing a loophole revealed by a TikTok about 'reading hacks.'" - LitHub
"Booksellers are lucky, because we get to sell whatever we want to sell. So we can sell the banned books, but what they're doing to schools and libraries, for that generation coming up ... is not the right way to go." - NPR
"She embodies both the magician and the spell, and part of the particular wonder of reading her is the knowledge that no one else has ever written like that before nor will again. She seemed to see so clearly." - The New York Times
The Keller Auditorium's "setting and its bones mean that there is great potential here, at a time when downtown needs its cultural landmarks more than ever. Yet to close Keller for repairs would be to turn off the revenue stream that makes such investments possible." - Oregon ArtsWatch
"At just 34, Yore’s art has become instantly recognisable in its spectacular, colourful vulgarity, taking on gender, sexuality, politics, religion, capitalism and advertising." - The Guardian (UK)
The 91-year-old actor, who has played the voice of the terrifying villain for decades, apparently "signed over the rights to his archival voice work, allowing the Ukrainian startup Respeecher to leverage AI technology and recreate the sound of his voice." - The Verge
"Scary books give children the tools to deal with fear off the page. ... Banning books shuts that gateway to the good and the bad, the funny and the terrifying, and the knowledge that difficult paths may lead to happy endings." - The Atlantic
And her play Clyde's, a sequel of sorts to Sweat, the most produced play. "On the Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights list, she is tied with the prolific Lauren Gunderson with a whopping 24 productions each." - American Theatre
"Bizarro" creator Dan Piraro says, "'Seeing the dominoes begin to fall at such an accelerated pace is scary,' ... noting that he still depends on the income he receives from print newspapers. 'I’ll now need to put more energy into generating income elsewhere.'" - Washington Post
Twenty-four board members of Toronto's Power Plant resigned together "in response to their parent organization Harbourfront’s alleged attempt to terminate and replace 12 members of the board. The only remaining members on the board ... are two Harbourfront directors." - Hyperallergic
"This Documenta, unlike any before it, was not about art, or ideas, but about the friends we made along the way — the friends and, indeed, the enemies." - The New York Times
"Technological changes may seem inevitable, but they often come down to one person making an arbitrary choice. If Henry Ford had decided to build electric cars rather than gas-powered ones, it would have changed the course of our whole civilization." - Wired
"I was privy to the click maps provided by newsletter services like Mailchimp; I added up likes and comments and shares and divided them by the number of literal eyeballs sliding over a post and thought I’d go crazy as I chased after “key performance indicators,” otherwise known as KPIs." - The Baffler
Mr. Garcia, 33, and Mr. Blanco, 26, have both dedicated their lives to transforming themselves into the same pop star. But for all the surface similarities, the two men’s lives are otherwise a study in sharp contrasts. - The New York Times
Museums, collectors, artist estates and others are "exploring NFTs of traditional art to build support, protect and conserve work, and bring in a new generation of art appreciators." - ARTnews
