penguin random house. sarah thangam matthews. for all this could be different. lished by viking books. penguin. random and alejandro rose varela for the town. babylon. published. astra house of astra publishing. house. this year's national book award for fiction goes to tess gunty for the rabbit hutch. i was so that there was no way this could happen. i did not prepare a speech. but the one thing i did do was read my fellow short listings and i first want to thank them for putting their work out into the world. i've been thinking a lot about sharon, old said yesterday about how we've been preparing to put forth action for the good. and that's why we have to be afraid and. when i think about everyone else, this list, that's what each of those books accomplished. as different as may be, they attended to those who are structurally neglected. and the humanized experience is that are not visible normally. so i want to thank them for putting their books into the world and everyone helped them do that. i also want to thank my team, my agent duvall who was here from the

not just penguin random house, but washington post columnist greg sergeant published an op-ed, titlea tough new faux, angry moms with lawyers. he writes, in one of the big political surprises of 2023, pockets of stiff resistance have sprung up to defend teachers, textbooks, novels and libraries against censorship efforts across the country. this liberal counter vocalization is substantially less organized than the rights culture warring, but it is great untapped potential for democrats. i know, george, we're not gonna make this a partisan issue, but everybody should be against brooklyn. no matter what happens. but it is interesting, there is everything from a grassroots component to this thing, to authors, to publishers. >> yeah, also, literally trusting the way they word of it. i have spoken publicly about the fact that the silence of democrats, during, this has also been kind of like a dog whistle to what is also happening. so, i've also been very critical of the republicans. and these groups that are trying to ban the books. also, the other side, for some reason, does not see what

amy: it is interesting you did this with penguin random house, publisher. major textbook publishers, when they are told to take out certain things or their books will not be bought in a certain state, it is not like they produce books for every state. so when one state does this, it changes the reading material all over the country. it is not also just ron desantis is going to announce for president of the united states and so have that national impact, but it is the publishers have to go the lowest common denominator so they don't have to selectively publish books in each state. >> that's right. it is a real concern. florida has huge school systems. they have market power. when they start to dictate what ideas need to be taken out of a history textbook, what episodes can be talked about, can we talk about black lives matter? can you talk about the black panther movement? if they say no, that has repercussions. i think that is one of the reasons why we all need to be concerned about this whether you are on the left or right. these are fundamental free-speec

arguably there were -- >> they didn't recuse themselves about the penguin random house lawsuit. so when that came before the court, though they had taken collectively millions of dollars from penguin random house, shouldn't they have recused themselves from that? >> she wrote a book for them, and sit was a number one best seller. >> you're allowed to take money. are you allowed to oversee court business about penguin random house after you've taken millions of dollars? >> that's a judgment call. it's nothing, nothing like what clarence thomas has been doing, and look, if this wasn't partisan, why doesn't justice robert -- you want justice roberts to write an ethics code? >> absolutely, i've said it tonight. >> why did he refuse to appear before the judiciary committee? >> respectfully, i think that he shouldn't actually appear. i think that it would be more responsible -- >> why not? >> i think it's impossible for the chief justice to appear before congress without it devolving into the politics. we've seen every single hearing thus far with this new divisive brand of our politic

obviously now with penguin random house in the uk. but yes, it was at penguin. i've worked in various departments, so i've worked on very commercial books, you know, like thrillers. and now i tend to work on more serious nonfiction and a lot of classics. but i think, you know, it's it seems to be the same where wherever i am, you know, often will get, you know, we're working with a book that might not yet be written or we'll just have a few lines about it and not know that much. you know, hopefully there's a manuscript that we can get our hands on, but that's not always the case. but it's yeah, it's been such an instructive, an amazing experience. you know, i've got to read incredible works of literature. i've learned so much more than i ever did when i was at university about, you know, the art of writing and putting together a piece of writing and i think that, you know, writing these very short paragraphs can actually teach you a lot about, you know, writing as a whole and, you know, writing a whole book. well, what makes a good blurb? oh, the million dollar

. >>> in florida, a lawsuit was filed, the suit, filed by penguin random house authors, parents and aambia county school district which is in florida's pan handle violated the first amendment by removing the books, mostly about minorities and lgbtq kids. antonia hilton is with me now. talk us through this lawsuit. >> the lawsuit was put together by pen america, they worked with penguin random house, a massive publisher, authors, and also parents representing their minors who still go to this school district. and who they say wanted access to books and other perspectives available to them in their public schools. they're launching this as a lawsuit focused on the first and 14th amendments, and they say what they are going to establish is that this school has been part of an ideological pattern, that we're seeing not just in this district but other districts this the state of florida and around the country in some cases, and that the school district that has at times, not even followed their own policies to review books before taking them off the shelves. take a listen to a conversation

free speech organization pan america and publisher penguin random house claimed escambia county -- violated the first amendment by removing certain books from its school libraries. they say the books targeted were about race, gender, and sexuality.on desantoo som of theivt somein rosa parks' book is not allowed. that's a lie. we know that's a lie. that's not true. you can look at the suggested reading list. >> desantis has backed policies allowing books to be removed based on whether they're deemed appropriate for schoolchildren. >>> "reuters" says a man who killed eight and injured 12 on a new york city bike path was sentenced to life in prison. the 35-year-old isis inspired terrorist plowed into cyclists and pedestrians with a truck in 2017. yesterday victims and family members confronted him in the court before he was sentenced. the life sentence was mandatory after a federal judge earlier deadlocked on the death penalty. >>> still to come, uber for teenagers. the car service invites a younger age group to take their own rides. erate to severe crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, your

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sotomayor and gorsuch failed to recuse themselves on copyright infringement cases involving penguin random house fix. the court reported that justice sotomayor has earned more than $3 million from books published through penguin, and the group said justice gorsuch, who's a republic, if you can keep it memoir was published by penguins forum books in 2019. earned over $500,000. in other book news, the 2023 pulitzer prizes were announced. here's some of the winners. freedom's dominion a saga of white resistance to federal power. jefferson cowie. he won the prize for history. g-man j. edgar hoover. and the making of the american century by beverly gage won the biography category and stayed true, a memoir by hua hsu won the prize for memoir or autobiograph and his name is george floyd by robert samuels and toluse olorunnipa won the general nonfiction cegory. both beverly gage and tolu olo juniper were recent gues on booktv. you can find them in our video library. and finally, in publishing news, the us postal service announced recently that it would honor children's book author and on a new forever s

sotomayor and gorsuch failed to recuse themselves on copyright infringement cases involving penguin random house fix. the court reported that justice sotomayor has earned more than $3 million from books published through penguin, and the group said justice gorsuch, who's a republic, if you can keep it memoir was published by penguins forum books in 2019. earned over $500,000. in other book news, the 2023 pulitzer prizes were announced. here's some of the winners. freedom's dominion a saga of white resistance to federal power. jefferson cowie. he won the prize for history. g-man j. edgar hoover. and the making of the american century by beverly gage won the biography category and stayed true, a memoir by hua hsu won the prize for memoir or autobiography. and his name is george floyd by robert samuels and toluse olorunnipa won the general nonfiction category. both beverly gage and tolu olo juniper were recent guests on booktv. you can find them in our video library. and finally, in publishing news, the us postal service announced recently that it would honor children's book author and illustrator

declined to recuse herself from copyright cases including book publisher random house despite having been paid millions by penguinuse for books making it by far a little bit more of a concern of the appearance of impropriety. largest source of income for jus justice sotomaier. we're not accusing anything we're saying you know what this is all about, the left hopes it is it's their way to move the supreme court to the left because they have to take down every institution left in america. that's it for us tonight don't forget set your dvr so you always say connected to us. thank you for watching. gutfeld is next. ♪ >> greg: yes! here we go. here we go. ha ha ha ha, yeah! oh, wow. knock it out [cheers and applause] >> greg: happy wednesday, america. now when you think of san francisco, what did you used to think of? cable

it'll be penguin random house. it's my publisher, viking children's the is the imprint they're. yeah david maraniss the next project i'm taking a gap year i was that 30 straight years of writing books. i don't think my next book be about sports. more likely politics. i still have a second volume of my obama biography to finish. i'm waiting for him his library open up and him to write his second memoir and all of that. so we'll see. and i guess finally, who's favorite athlete of all time? oh, roberto clemente. i mean, i wrote a book about him. i think he was an awesome human being and a beautiful football player. and that book came out in 2007. still baseball's hero. yeah, i think so. yeah. andrew maraniss favorite athlete all time. favorite. what has a kid like that i love so much? paul molitor of the milwaukee brewers city moncrief of the milwaukee bucks. but perry wallace, the subject of my first book is probably someone outside of my own family is the person that i admire most in the world. andrew maraniss most recent book, inaugural ballers the true story of the first u.s. w

came up for a vote before justice sotomayor and because she had a book that was published by penguin random houseom those votes. justice breyer retired from the court also received money from the publisher. the justices decide whether they recuse or don't from cases. with the reporting that has had to deal with justice thomas and justice gorsuch these people didn't have cases that came before the court. that's an important distinction. whether there is more to this story that's out in the "washington post", we don't know yet. we're waiting to see if we can get a statement from the thomas's or the court or somebody close to them so we'll have more clarity on that. the fact is there are financial things that are amended all the times. justice jackson had to amend forms and justice sotomayor has done it as well. if the press wants to go after the issue of ethics at the supreme court let's make sure there is fair treatment on that question and vet everybody. >> aishah: she also came on and said the left is trying to force justice thomas to resign. we've been seeing a push at least from the senate jud

in other florida news, publisher penguin random house and pen america are suing the escambia county schoolistrict for banning books on race and lgbtq issues, citing a violation of the first amendment. the south carolina house of representatives passed a six-week abortion ban. the bill now goes to the senate. earlier this year, the south carolina supreme court struck down a previous six-week ban but republicans hope the new effort will be successful as the supreme court's lone woman justice has since retired and was replaced with a right-wing male judge. meanwhile, a federal appeals court appears likely to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone, the most commonly used abortion method in the u.s. the three conservative judges that were appointed by former presidents donald trump and george w. bush grilled the justice department and drug maker danco laboratories over the medication's approval by the fda over ago and more recent 20 efforts to expand patient access. this is justice department attorney sarah harrington being questioned by judge james ho. >> the districts courts order

publishing giant, penguin random house, along with parents, authors, and nonprofit groups around americay school district and -- about racing lgbtq community. the lawsuit alleges a removal land restriction of these books violates the 1st and 14th amendments. they are asking for the books to be returned, for the district to be prohibited from removing them again. a slew of new desantis backed state laws have educators second guessing what kind of reading materials they can keep on their shelves. from the so-called, don't say gay, bill, that bans classroom discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity. to hv 1647, a law requiring all schoolbooks to be cataloged and submitted for state review. can american ceo, suzanne nossel, joins me now. your organization found a 28% increase in book banning during the first half of this school year alone. and we know that florida is one of the states with the most bands. so why are you suing escambia county, specifically, as a strategy to challenge on a county by county basis. >> look, escambia county is emblematic of the pattern that we see

free expense freshen is monitoring these bans across the country, alongside publisher pen penguin random houset against a florida school district for removing books related to race in the lgbtq community after high school teacher complained. joining me now is suzanne nossel pen america ceo, and ashley ho perez, a plaintive in the suit and author of out of darkness, one of the most banned books in recent years, according to pan america. thank you both for being here. ms. suzanne nossel, please explain your lost suit. >> great to see you, joy. great to be here. we are suing in escambia county challenging under the first amendment in the 14th amendment to the constitution, the removal and banning of books for students in school libraries. these books overwhelmingly target stories and authors, narratives, people of color, and lgbtq individuals, so that places a discrimination claim under the constitution and from a first amendment perspective they are picking in choosing books they don't like that portray stories that they don't agree with, that they think are inappropriate, that don't depict a fa

penguin. random house publishers are suing a florida school district over its removal of books about raising lgbtq identities. the federal lawsuit alleges the escambia county school district school board are violating the first amendment by removing the books . it does not name governor de santis as a defendant, but he has pushed policies that allows censorship in challenging of books in public school libraries. at the vatican today, pope francis posed for pictures with a group of lgbt q catholics during his weekly address in st peter's square group was at the vatican marking international day against homophobia biphobia and transphobia. it commemorates the day in 1990 that homosexuality was removed from the list of mental illnesses by the world health organization. the los angeles dodgers say the sisters of perpetual indulgence have been disinvited from their annual pride night event. the team planned to honor the group with community hero award on june 16th. but in a statement today, the team said, because some people were offended by their inclusion they've removed them is honorees. catholic gr

over the removal of books on race and identity issues from school libraries, but publisher penguin random houser,s and penn america filed the suit against the escambia county school district. the suit argues that school officials violated the first amendment in restricting access to books. here with me now is pen america's ceo suzanne nosel. thanks so much for being here. tell us the grounds for this lawsuit. >> sure, this case is emblematic of what we are seeing in a pattern across the country. we have hundreds of books that have been challenged by a single individual, one person launching a kind of summary challenge, clearly not even having read these books, and that initiates a process whereby in escambia county, there's a review committee that reads the book, that deliberates over whether the book should be on the classroom shelves, and there are case after case where that committee agreed that the book had value, that this was something children should have access to, that kids could benefit from these stories, but nonetheless, the school board overrode their decision, took the books off t

>> this involves a case -- several cases where penguin random house, the conglomerate that all three,phen breyer, justice sonia sotomayor, and neil gorsuch all have big contracts with, contracts that they have disclosed over time, and two of them did not recuse themselves from cases that were on the list of many, many petitions coming to the court. this is something that fix court, a watchdog group, and then the daily wire had talked about, focused more on two of the justices. the reason stephen breyer -- it could have been frankly i don't know why they didn't recuse because they didn't say. we tried to ask them, why didn't you recuse yourself from cases? they were cases that were not heard by the court, and they did report their income. i do want to mention, though, jake, that stephen breyer, who did recuse, likely didn't recuse because he had gotten money from a subsidiary of the publishing house. it's because his family had owned some stock in the publisher. so this area is not of the magnitude of other things we've talked about. but what we've tried to do is bring all these things

. >> they pulled in penguin random house, a number of children's books and authors and two parents inia county schools essentially have systematically removed books disproportionately representative of kids of color and lgbtq kids and it is a violation of the first amendment and the equal protection clause. they want these books ultimately brought back into the school district and they establish in their filing this is part of a pattern, a larger ideological pattern we are seeing frankly not just in florida, although florida has been at the center of the culture wars here in this country right now, but in school districts around the country. you know, many of the authors are banned in escambia but they're not -- but they are banned in many other school districts around the country as well right now. the school district has not yet spoken out about the lawsuit but i managed to get one of the school board members on phone. this guy, bill slaton, who represents district five he told me when i reached him he was surprised by the lawsuit not because of the contents but because every distri

penguin random house along with several other plaintiffs filed a federal lawsuit against a school districtn florida accusing them of unconstitutionally restricting and banning books. nbc news correspondent antonia hylton joins us now. >> so, antonia, first off, what specifically is the lawsuit arguing here? >> the lawsuit is arguing that this school district has violated the first amendment age 14th amendment, equal protection clause and allege this district at times removed books without following their own policies and that they've targeted books that involve the stories of people of color and lgbtq children and so what they're asking for is that this school district and similar school districts, their hope across florida or maybe around the country, will put some of these books back onto the shelves and some authors have spoken out saying they wrote them to give kids of different racial family backgrounds a sense of who they are on the bookshelves in the classrooms that they have access to. and part of the argument, of course, as a public school they should have access to things that re

we've learning liberal sonia sotomayor denied to recuse herself from cases involving penguin random housepite having been paid millions by them for her books, making it by far more of a concern of the appearance of impropriety. largest source of income for justice sotomayor according to records. not accusing her of anything, you know what this is about, calls for ethics rules involving the supreme court. the left hopes it is their way to move the supreme court to the left, because they have to take down every institution left in america. set your dvr, stay connected with us. thank you for watching. >> todd: a fox news alert, house oversight committee subpoenaing the fbi for a document a whistleblower says describes a criminal scheme involving then vice president joe biden. you're watching "fox and friends first" on thursday morning, i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. the president accused of taking money from a foreign national in exchange for policy decisions, while he was serving as president obama's second in command. >> todd: a decision coming down i

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justice sotomayor had two book contracts with random house and penguin. gotten over $3 million it is publicly reported. her main source of income. they were two different matters before the supreme court. she did not recuse herself from either one. that's a direct nexus. >> dana: do you think the goal on the left is to just delegitimize the court because they don't like the fact that there is a conservative court making decisions they don't like, like dobbs? >> they want to delegitimize the conservatives on the court. in barrett's confirmation hearing she showed up with no notes and got seven kids to school that morning. the senators were rude to her. their job under the constitution is to advise and consent the president's nominees, not search and destroy. you will recall senator feinstein saying it is clear your dogma lives within you. people have published the name and address of her church and k k kids -- be careful when you delegitimize institutions. it hurts us all. the supreme court has the most constraints and most transparent. why aren't we banni