Posted on October 22, 2026 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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Author Thélyson Orélien has been dropped by his Canadian publisher over accusations — which he denies — that he used artificial intelligence to write his novel It Was Either That or Die; France's prestigious Prix Goncourt had earlier dropped the novel from its shortlist (The New York Times).
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Booksellers in the United Kingdom are selling out of Sally Rooney's novels, as news breaks that her works will no longer be sold there because of her support for the banned group Palestine Action (The Guardian).
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Grace Lapointe looks back at the middle-grade novel Redwall by Brian Jacques; the book, the first in a series about anthropomorphic mice living in a medieval English abbey, turns forty tomorrow (Book Riot).
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A new audio edition of Karin Slaughter’s Last Breath is out, with a Emmy-nominated actress narrating it (People).
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Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding has created a comedy writing prize, named after her famous character, that aims to find new voices in humor from northern England (The Guardian).
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Check out the cover of Biolamp by Dennis James Sweeney; the poetry collection will come out April 20 (Electric Literature).
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