Posted on October 2, 2023 at 2:00 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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The first teaser-trailer for the adaptation of Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam is out; the movie starring Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, Mahershala Ali and Myha’la will premiere in theaters November 22 and on Netflix on December 8 (YouTube).
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A fragment of John Steinbeck's original draft of Of Mice and Men, which was torn up by his dog Toby, is going up for auction October 25, along with several other papers and personal items of the author's (The Guardian).
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The Fall Of America II is a tribute album that offers musical interpretations of Allen Ginsburg's poetry; in honor of its October 6 release, Fresh Air reran Terry Gross's 1994 conversation with Ginsburg (NPR).
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Author Echo Brown, known for the YA novels Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard and The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey, has died at the age of thirty-nine (Publishers Weekly).
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Khaled Khalifa, a Syrian author, poet, and screenwriter whose novels were banned in his own country, has died at the age of fifty-nine (The Guardian).
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Project Gutenberg has added 5,000 AI-narrated audiobooks, made possible by a text-to-speech program developed by Microsoft and MIT, to its free offerings (FreeThink).
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