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’Tis the season to be spooky: have you decorated your Halloween tree yet?

With just a month left till trick-or-treat time, artificial Christmas trees are being dragged out of lofts and given a hellish makeover. Forget tinsel and candy canes – think bats, cobwebs and crime-scene tape

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Karla Peterson: A new Comic-Con oral history lets the geeks do the talking

SAN DIEGO — How big is author Mathew Klickstein's new oral history of San Diego Comic-Con? As big as it needs to be.

Tribune News Service

Pulse of the Heartland: Waukegan voters tired of pols who sail into their harbor city before elections then leave them adrift

Residents told the Sun-Times they want public officials to take a holistic approach to the problems facing their lakefront city. “So it’s not just, oh, do this, vote this way, and boom, now we’re good. We need leaders who take a macro vision,” said photographer Jordan Esparza-Kelley.

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How independent bookstores help in the fight against book banning and why it matters

An Atlanta store is one of hundreds of independent booksellers across the country celebrating the freedom to read as schools, universities and public libraries face attempts to ban or restrict books.

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Fahrenheit 451 Was Once Sanitized for Public Schools

A publishing company ironically removed the original version of the Ray Bradbury novel depicting mass media censorship.

Reason

You’ve got style: Brilliant books on creative writing

From Italo Calvino to Dorothea Brande, Emma Cummins reflects on the books that inspire her as a writer

The Guardian - UK

People are sharing short stories assigned in school that have ‘haunted’ them since: ‘Shivering 50 years later’

‘I literally think about short stories we had to read in high school REGULARLY’ tweeted one person

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Book and theatre bans in a living culture of fear

With tolerance for diversity running thin, dystopic fiction is turning into reality

The Hindu

‘It Came From Outer Space’ a close encounter of the very silly kind

The small pleasures of silly new sci-fi musical at Chicago Shakespeare don’t add up to much.

Chicago Sun-Times

Who Controls What Books You Can Read?

Welcome to Reason's summer banned books issue.

Reason

Afternoon Edition: June 9, 2022

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

Summer Guide: ‘It Came from Outer Space’ musical, inspired by cult classic film, touches on timely topics 70 years later

Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair, the musical theater team behind the hit show “Murder for Two,” transform the film, which was based on a Ray Bradbury story, into a new stage musical.

Chicago Sun-Times

'Back to the Future' screenwriter says time travel has become "too convenient"

Co-writer Bob Gale explores 'Back to the Future's massive influence on sci-fi blockbusters and how the time-travel rules have changed over the last three decades.

Inverse

Anita Chabria: I went to the trucker convoy. It was scary, but not for the reason you think

Donny Thomas and I agreed on many things when we spoke at the California Capitol this week. That's alarming when you consider he's part of the so-called People's Convoy that has crisscrossed the nation in recent days protesting coronavirus health measures and serving as a echo chamber of conspiracy theories…

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