Milestones

With this year’s ALA Annual Conference just around the corner, we talked with ALA leadership about the library organization’s 150th anniversary and previewed the jam-packed programming. Also celebrating a major anniversary is Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, which is marking its centennial with new imprints, initiatives, and more. Workers at Catapult Book Group have voted to unionize following an election with the National Labor Relations Board. And despite the Trump administration’s cuts and changes to the agency, the National Endowment for the Arts is keeping its NEA Big Read program alive with a new round of grants to libraries and other institutions. In other news, Amazon’s TV adaptation of Ali Hazelwood’s The Love Hypothesis will premiere on September 23, Deadline reports. Former Dark Horse founder and CEO Mike Richardson is starting a new chapter with a pop culture museum in his hometown of Milwaukie, Ore., per the Beat. Cartoonist Joe Sacco is speaking out after Penguin Random House India withdrew his new book about a 2013 episode of sectarian violence in the country, via the Independent. On Substack, Brooklyn Public Library chief librarian Edwin Maxwell shares some book recommendations with Language Arts. The New Yorker’s Jessica Winter argues that “book-shaming” won’t solve the children’s literacy crisis. And Jane Yolen, a prolific author of books for both adults and children, has died at 87.