So sorry to hear this news. Yolen remains one of the best ever to do it. May her memory and her work be for a blessing.
As the 2026 midterms approach, how are the biggest AI firms preparing? Tim Bernard breaks down the election-safety plans from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic—from voting-info partnerships to watermarking to cyber defense—and where the gaps still are. www.techpolicy.press/how-openai-g...
I see a lot of bookish news on my feed, but I ignore pretty much all of it except this: only 31% of US 4th-graders read at grade level.
Format, delivery system, how books get monetized will not matter if people cannot or do not read.
Support every system that gets books to kids.
I learned to love reading through 1960s comic books, moved into Hardy Boys and Scholastic book fair books, then on to Sherlock Holmes, Wells, Stoker, Heinlein, Clarke, Bradbury ... so many more. I wouldn't be a writer unless I started with comic books.
Today's note of praise is for Van Wyck Brooks's THE FLOWERING OF NEW ENGLAND, 1815-1865, a literary/intellectual history which has the remarkable ability to give you a sense of the easiest familiarity with some of the boldfaced names of the period (Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne) - it's as if Brooks