Posted on August 20, 2025 at 12:00 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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At least in Britain, younger readers are increasingly visiting bookstores, giving the chain Waterstones reason to open new locations (The Guardian).
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Brittany Allen wants to highlight these six classics being reissued in the fall, should you be headed on a shopping spree (Literary Hub).
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In honor of a recently released series adaptation of John Grisham's The Rainmaker, Linda Holmes ranks the best screen versions of Grisham's work (NPR).
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Jeffrey Wright and Octavia Spencer will star in a movie production of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (Variety).
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Speaking of plays, a musical one called Operation Mincemeat tells of how James Bond author Ian Fleming misdirected the Nazis during World War II with a corpse and fake military plans (The New York Times).
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