This winter, Andre Codrescu wrote a piece for Publisher's Weekly proclaiming how deadly Facebook is for writers, that "the real purpose a writer displays 'friendliness' in any of these places is to sell books," and that it doesn't work.

But it's not just writers. He tells us...

The Texas Education Board banned the picture book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? this month because they confused its author, Bill Martin Jr., and Bill Martin, the author of a book called Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation.

It's a mistake that could have been corrected...