Posted on July 24, 2025 at 8:46 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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The website Goodreads has dramatically changed its logo (Yahoo!).
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Joanna Macy, author of several books on recognizing and overcoming eco-anxiety, including World as Lover, World as Self and Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age, died Saturday at age ninety-six (The New York Times).
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See the twenty-nine debut novels that make up the 2025 First Novel Prize longlist (Center for Fiction).
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Read an excerpt from Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season by John Gregory Dunne (Literary Hub).
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Bestselling thriller author David Baldacci testified about the effects of AI companies' theft of copyright works, to train their tools, before a Senate subcommittee last week (Authors Guild).
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