Posted on June 27, 2025 at 3:00 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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Kelly Jensen opens her weekly roundup of book bans and challenges with information on the Brooklyn Public Library's toolkit for guiding a new generation of intellectual freedom advocates (Book Riot).
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The winners of the 2025 Firecracker Awards, which honor "the best independently published books of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry and the best literary magazines in the categories of debut and general excellence," have been announced (Literary Hub).
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, who published seventy-six novels for young adult readers over the course of forty-plus years, from 1970's Just Morgan to 2013's The Shade of the Moon, died Monday at age seventy-seven (The New York Times).
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Here are the literary movies and TV shows that one bookworm thinks are worth streaming in July (Literary Hub).
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