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Posted on January 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!
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Draft lyrics to Nobel in literature laureate Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man” sold at auction over the weekend for $508,000; the papers were part of the late rock journalist Al Aronowitz's personal collection (Rolling Stone).
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Onyx Storm, the third book in Rebecca Yarros's red-hot Empyrean series, went on sale yesterday; the author talked about the intensity of the publishing schedule, and fans complained about the release of the Target-exclusive special edition (Book Riot).
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Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is writing a memoir focusing on speaking to those who have suffered from self-doubt; A Different Kind of Power comes out June 3 (The Guardian).
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Award-winning cartoonist and playwright Jules Feiffer, who illustrated The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, died January 17 at age ninety-five (NPR).
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Ahead of his Reading Rights Summit, author Frank Cottrell-Boyce said children are facing a "happiness recession" and highlighted the “invisible privilege and inequality” within children’s reading" (The Guardian).
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