Posted on July 10, 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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Leila Aboulela has won the PEN Pinter Prize, which honors a writer who "casts an ‘unflinching, unswerving’ gaze upon the world, and shows a ‘fierce intellectual determination … to define the real truth of our lives and our societies,’ " (The Guardian).
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Oprah Winfrey has chosen Culpability by Bruce Holsinger for her July 2025 book club pick; the novel is set in the near future, in a world in which a teen boy is behind the wheel of a self-driving car that causes a fatal accident (Oprah Daily).
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Check out the cover of Let the Moon Wobble by Ally Ang and learn about the design process for this November 11 release (Electric Literature).
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Listen to an excerpt of Stephen King narrating the Hansel and Gretel adaptation he wrote to accompany artwork by the late Maurice Sendak; the hardcover and audio versions of this book come out September 2 (Sendak's website).
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James B. Maas, a social psychologist who wrote several books including Power Sleep: The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performance, died June 23 at age eighty-six (The New York Times).
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Feminist author Jane Lazarre, who wrote The Mother Knot, On Loving Men, and Worlds Beyond My Control, died June 19 at age eighty-one (The New York Times).
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