Nancy Drew Spinoff Tom Swift Canceled After One Season
The CW has canceled its Nancy Drew spinoff Tom Swift after a single season. The CBS Studios series, which premiered on May 31st, will finish out the remainder of this season but it will not be returning for a second one. Tom Swift is part of a surge of cancellations at The CW. The network has canceled 11 total series in the 2021-2022 season.
Austin Public Library Teams with BookPeople to Start Banned Book Camp
The Austin Public Library is partnering with local bookseller BookPeople to organize a summer-long event series called Banned Camp, encouraging engagement with books that have been banned or challenged. The library’s banned camp hosts events for readers of all ages to engage with banned books, including Graphic Novel Bookclub for Adults, Banned Camp for Teens, and Storytime at Pease Park for kids ages 3 to 5. “This is a very multifaceted community, lots of people coming to Austin or who’ve lived in Austin, with lots of different backgrounds and experiences and identities,” Baylor Johnson, a spokesperson for the Austin Public Library, said. “It’s important that we celebrate all stories and that’s why it’s sort of so dangerous and alarming to see that so many of the books that are being challenged and are being removed from library shelves are specifically those about and by marginalized groups or people of color, or immigrants or LGBTQ people.”
Stranger Things Pop-Up Book Brings Fans into the Upside Down
The season finale of Stranger Things season 4 is here, and Insight Editions is releasing a special pop-up book to celebrate. Stranger Things: The Ultimate Pop-Up Book captures iconic moments from all four seasons of the popular Netflix series with intricate, pop-up recreations designed by award-winning paper engineers Matthew Reinhart and Simon Arizpe and featuring illustrations by artist Kyle Lambert. Finished copies of the book will be on display at Comic-Con in San Diego. The book will be released from Insight Editions’ new imprint, Reinhart Pop-Up Studio, on August 30th.
Dubai Opens New Book-Shaped Library
The largest cultural project in Dubai’s history is a book-shaped library.