Posted on May 1, 2023 at 10:00 AM 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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Rabbi Harold Kushner, who wrote When Bad Things Happen to Good People after the death of his firstborn child, has died (NPR and The New York Times).
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Reviews are starting to come in for The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, the debut novel of actor and director Tom Hanks; the novel officially releases May 9 (Kirkus and the Guardian).
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If you're in the US, you'll have to wait longer to read another book that the Guardian reviewed: The Lost Album of The Beatles: What if the Beatles hadn't split up? by Daniel Rachel comes out August 1 here, though it's already out in the UK.
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James Shapiro has won the the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction's Winner of Winners award for his 2006 novel, 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare; the £25,000 (about $31,400) purse and honors chose one winner from the previous twenty-four (Literary Hub).
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