Harley Quinn Renewed for Season 4 at HBO Max
HBO Max has renewed the adult animated DC series Harley Quinn for a fourth season. This announcement comes just a few weeks ahead of season three’s September 15th finale. The series has also announced a new showrunner for season 4. Sarah Peters, who has written for Harley Quinn throughout its run and currently serves as a consulting producer, will now serve as executive producer and showrunner. She takes over this role from Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker. “We are ecstatic that HBO Max wants the story of Harley and Ivy to continue,” Halpern and Schumacker said in a statement. “And we are equally thrilled that this next season will be in great hands with Sarah Peters as our showrunner and Ceci Aranovich overseeing animation production, as they have both greatly influenced the show with their brilliance since the beginning.”
North Idaho Librarian Resigns Over Extremism
North Idaho library director Kimber Glidden has announced her resignation, effective September 10th. In her announcement posted by the library, Glidden wrote, “Nothing in my background could have prepared me for the political atmosphere of extremism, militant Christian fundamentalism, intimidation tactics, and threatening behavior currently being employed in the community.” Glidden’s announcement comes following a petition to recall four Boundary County Library board members over a routine policy update. The new policy says that the library’s selection of materials will not be affected by book “disapprovals” and that “the Boundary County Library will not place materials on ‘closed shelves’ or label items to protect the public from their content.” Additionally, a group called the Boundary County Library Board Recall, whose stated mission “is to protect children from explicit materials and grooming,” has singled out Glidden and other board members for the decision to rejoin the American Library Association in May. “It wasn’t a final straw so much as a constant barrage of the same rhetoric and people not listening to my answers,” said Glidden when asked what caused her to finally resign. “They don’t want to hear the truth.”
UK and Ukraine Book Festivals Partner to Protect Freedom of Expression
Ukraine’s largest book festival is partnering with Hay festival in an effort to protect freedom of expression. Serving as a digital partner, Hay will broadcast Lviv BookForum’s 15 events online for free. Hay has also curated a number of events with an international digital audience in mind. Organized by Ukraine’s Publishers’ Forum, the Lviv BookForum is in its 29th year and will take place on October 6th-9th both online and in person. CEO of Hay festival Julie Finch has described the partnership as “an act of solidarity across art, culture and audiences.” And Sofia Cheliak, the program director at Lviv BookForum, said the festival will give people a chance to learn more about Ukraine. “Using culture and literature is a way we can explain what is going on [here],” Cheliak said. “It’s our chance to tell our true story and who we are and why we are fighting, why it’s important for us to be independent.” The full program for Lviv BookForum will be announced in mid-September on the Hay festival website.
Why Are DC’s Hispanic Heritage Month Covers So Awful?
Here’s why the covers DC has chosen to showcase for Hispanic Heritage Month have people understandably upset.