Posted on June 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM 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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Rod Nordland, a journalist who wrote The Lovers based on his reporting and the memoir Waiting for the Monsoon, died Wednesday at age seventy-five (The New York Times).
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The winners of the 2025 Locus Awards, honoring excellence in science fiction, fantasy, and horror, were announced this weekend (Book Riot).
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Here are more details about TikTok owner ByteDance's decision to close its publishing branch, 8th Note Press (The New York Times).
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Have you noticed the increase in book covers that feature older paintings of subjects with "baleful or dyspeptic" facial expressions ... with a splash of modern typeface and aggressive color? (The New York Times).
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