Posted on August 4, 2025 at 2:07 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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Ann Harris, editor of numerous bestsellers including William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist and Colleen McCullough's The Thorn Birds, died June 1 at age ninety-nine (The New York Times).
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Libraries across the nation offer a summer challenge of some sort, but the one in Ann Arbor, Michigan, stands out — over 10 percent of the people that it serves participate in the game, and over half of those players are adults (NPR).
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Authors and publishers weigh in on what the controversy surrounding Raynor Winn's The Salt Path will mean for the subgenre of nature memoir (The Guardian).
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