Posted on March 24, 2026 at 12:33 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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We now know the winners of the 2026 Libby Book Awards and the final ballot for the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards.
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Meanwhile, Anna Dempsey, author of the unpublished novel This Is About an Alligator and Nothing Else, has received the inaugural Hilary Mantel Prize for Fiction (The Guardian).
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The finalists for the 2025 Nebula Awards are out, and writer Tananarive Due will serve as the toastmaster at the awards ceremony, which is from June 3-7.
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Brian Doherty, who wrote books about libertarianism, 1960s underground comics, and the Burning Man festival, died March 13 at age fifty-seven (The New York Times).
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