Posted on December 1, 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 opened last week’s roundup of book ban and challenge news with links to powerful past posts on the subject (Book Riot).
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And then, to kick off the week, Jensen put the spotlight on how vaguely worded state legislation gives bad actors, such as book-ban advocates in one Ohio school district, plenty of leeway to restrict everyone's access (Book Riot).
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Read an excerpt from The Dream of the Jaguar, written by Miguel Bonnefoy and translated by Ruth Diver (Electric Literature).
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You can also read an excerpt of Intemperance by Sonora Jha (Literary Hub).
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Hardship grant applications to the UK's Royal Literary Fund provide intimate glimpses into the lives of such writers as Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Doris Lessing, James Joyce, CS Lewis, and Joseph Conrad (The Guardian).
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Ellen Bryant Voigt, who was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Messenger: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2006 and a National Book Award finalist for Messenger and Shadow of Heaven, died October 23 at age eighty-two (The New York Times).
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Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter's Bone, Ride With the Devil, Tomato Red, and several others, died November 28 at age seventy-two (The New York Times).
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Author Sally Rooney told a court that she is unlikely to be able to publish anything new in the United Kingdom while that country's ban on the group Palestine Action — which she has publicly supported — remains in effect (The Guardian)
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