Posted on April 13, 2026 at 1:00 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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Some good news on reading: A new survey found that 75 percent of US adults have read all or part of at least one book in the past year, with print remaining the favored format (Pew Research).
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And some depressing news: the Texas State Board of Education gave preliminary approval to a required reading list for public schools; this version dropped works by Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, and Mary Shelley, but kept a number of biblical texts (The Texas Tribune).
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Watch the first official trailer for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, adapted from Suzanne Collins's second Hunger Games prequel (YouTube).
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Read an excerpt from The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley (Literary Hub).
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Tom Stoppard’s play Arcadia made its premiere on this day in 1993 (Literary Hub).
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Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is launching his own imprint with the publisher Skyhorse; among his first authors will be actor Russell Brand, who's facing multiple sexual violence charges (all of which he denies), and online figure Milo Yiannopoulos, himself no stranger to controversy (The Guardian).
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