Posted on June 11, 2025 at 8:00 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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Barbara Holdridge, whose spoken-word record label's success led to today's booming audiobook industry, died Monday at age ninety-five (The New York Times).
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David Means has won this year’s PEN/Bernard and Ann Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story (Literary Hub).
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Kick off summer with another best books of the year so far list (TIME).
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Watch former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden's CBS Sunday Morning interview about her firing (YouTube).
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The UK's National Literary Trust found the lowest level of reading enjoyment among those ages five to eighteen in two decades (The Guardian).
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The friends and family of Dom Phillips, a journalist killed while exploring remote parts of the Amazon with the intention of helping protect the region, have finished a manuscript he began about his efforts there (The New York Times).
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