LeVar Burton and Aja Naomi King to Narrate Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s My Monticello
LeVar Burton and Aja Naomi King will be two of the narrators bringing Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s words to life in the audiobook version of My Monticello. The two actors are among a slate of several narrators who will lend their voice to the audiobook. Others include Ngozi Anyanwu, January LaVoy, Tomiwa Edun, and Landon Woodson. My Monticello will available in bookstores and on Audible on October 5, 2021.
Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton to Adapt Maisie Dobbs Series
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton’s HiddenLight Productions has acquired the film and TV rights to the Maisie Dobbs series—a series of 16 novels that has sold millions of copies worldwide. This marks the first fiction option HiddenLight Productions has acquired. Hillary Clinton announced the news at a Cambridge online event. “One of our favorite books that Chelsea and I have shared over many years is a book about a character called Maisie Dobbs, which is a series about a WWI field nurse who turns into a detective, and we just optioned it,” she said. “It’s an international bestseller by Jacqueline Winspear, and we love the character. It goes from WWI to the Spanish Civil War to WWII. She comes of age in a time of great social upheaval.” No further details about the Clintons’ adaptation plans are known just yet.
Cathy Park Hong Makes TIME’s List of the World’s Most Influential People
Cathy Park Hong, author of Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, has made TIME magazine’s list of the the World’s 100 Most Influential People of 2021. In a piece for TIME about Cathy Park Hong, comedian, writer, and actor Ali Wong wrote, “I annotated the hell out of Minor Feelings—it’s the kind of book you want to dog-ear and underline. Reading it was such a crazy feeling: I felt so seen that I couldn’t believe that this book existed.”
Instead of School Board, Leander Police Investigate Book Challenge
Instead of requesting the school board review a title taught in school, one Leander parent went directly to the police. Now the police are investigating.