In early 2020, Jeanine Cummins’s novel “American Dirt” was released with fanfare. It had been sold to publisher Flatiron for seven figures in a bidding war and acquired glowing endorsements from ...

(upbeat music) - Sure, we can have fun with books, we can learn something new. But ultimately, I think books open not only our minds, books open our hearts, and this is why we need books more than ...