Anthony Bourdain’s Final Book Releasing This Year
TV host, travel writer, and chef Anthony Bourdain, who died by suicide in 2018, will have the book he was working on publish this October. World Travel: An Irreverent Guide, an illustrated collection that focuses on Bourdain’s favorite places to eat and travel to around the world was completed by Laurie Woolever, his longtime assistant. Why yes I am crying while hitting the prebuy button.
More Awards!
2019 is the 69th year for the National Jewish Book Awards and they’ve just announced their 2019 winners–including a Lifetime Achievement Award to Robert Alter for The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary. You know the drill: prepare your TBR and get to reading!
Proposed Missouri Bill Tries To Legalize Book Banning
The proposed Missouri bill Parental Oversight of Public Libraries Act wants public library funding to have several provisions, including creating a review board to determine if library material has “age-inappropriate sexual material.” And if it’s determined, by these self appointed people, then the library must bar minors from accessing these books or face loss of funding and possible imprisonment of librarians.