2.11: News: Courtroom Drama(s)

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Watch a viral TikTok showing Brennan Lee Mulligan (a popular D&D YouTuber and “internet boyfriend”) roleplaying as an anarchist goblin: https://www.tiktok.com/@emmaeditsvids/video/7228356808497384746

The new D&D movie is surprisingly good: https://kotaku.com/dungeons-and-dragons-movie-review-budget-easter-eggs-1850294824

Just because it makes me happy: Here’s the classic scene from Aliens where Vasquez wakes up from cryo sleep and starts doing pullups: https://youtu.be/Cb8bqidtzzo

While we’re on the topic ­– check out Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies, and the Internet on Netflix. The season finale has hackers recounting their adventures, including one hacker’s roundabout way of doing research with his lawyer: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21029130/

And finally, here are the news articles we referenced in this episode:

• Authors supporting each other: https://lithub.com/whats-going-on-with-all-the-empty-author-signing-pics/

• PRH and PEN go after book banner in Florida: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/92322-pen-america-penguin-random-house-sue-florida-school-district-over-unconstitutional-book-bans.html

• Texas judge ordered books returned to a library in April: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/91903-judge-finds-texas-library-s-book-bans-unconstitutional-orders-books-returned.html

• Some hard numbers on book bans: https://publishingperspectives.com/2023/03/ala-book-bannings-in-the-usa-broke-all-records-in-2022/

• The week in libraries from Publishers Weekly: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/index.html

• Internet Archive loses its case: https://publishingperspectives.com/2023/03/copyright-us-court-rules-against-internet-archive/

• In other legal cases: Dominion settles with Fox News. This matters for defamation cases in general: https://mailchi.mp/poynter/gyhd1w8glz?e=e5489eccb5

• South Asian translated books getting their due: https://publishingperspectives.com/2023/03/the-salt-program-focuses-on-translating-south-asian-literature/

If you were interested in any of the books we recommended, you can check them out here:

• Minor Mage by T. Kingfisher*: https://bookshop.org/a/55633/9781614505006

• Swordheart by T. Kingfisher*: https://bookshop.org/a/55633/9781614505228

• The Mincing Mockingbird Guide to Troubled Birds, which you can see on its publisher's site here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316490/the-mincing-mockingbird-guide-to-troubled-birds-by-mockingbird-the-mincing/

* We get a commission when someone buys a book from one of our lists. But more importantly, Bookshop supports small independent bookstores with every purchase. They've raised over $27 million for small bookstores so far!

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