AGP Executive Report
Last update: 8 hours agoSchool Book Bans: PEN America reports nearly 12,000 book bans in U.S. public schools over the past year, with Florida and Texas leading and administrators increasingly using AI to decide what to remove. Press Freedom & Surveillance: The IFJ’s new report, Hacked Silence, warns that journalists are being spied on at unprecedented scale, threatening source confidentiality and press safety. Italian Publishing & Books: A new Italian-titled Face to Face with Putin (Rubbettino/La Nuova Europa) spotlights an Italian journalist’s 2024 interview and how the narrative frames the war years. Book Culture: A literary spotlight on Andrew Sean Greer’s Villa Coco places a surreal plot in the Italian countryside, with a translation push underway. Awards & Events: Ukraine is set as guest of honor at the Pisa Book Festival, while BookCity Milano 2026 welcomes Colson Whitehead. Mini Books: In Baku, an Azerbaijani collector’s decades-long miniature book obsession has grown into a museum with about 8,000 tiny publications.
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