Posted on October 4, 2023 at 12:00 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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Netflix has released the trailer for All the Light We Cannot See; the limited series based on Anthony Doerr's 2014 bestseller premieres November 2 (YouTube).
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Read from a previously unpublished interview with author Gabriel García Márquez, done back in 1994 (El País).
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Chinese author Can Xue is considered the favorite to win the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature, to be announced tomorrow (The Guardian).
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A new exhibit in Paris explores more of how author Tove Jansson's worldview is reflected in her beloved Moomin books (The New York Times).
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Author Ian McEwan told an interviewer that he sees the move toward hiring sensitivity readers as one of the "moral panics" that sweep through society every so often (The Guardian).
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More than a dozen bestselling authors, including Michael Connelly, Judy Blume and Nikki Grimes, are uniting to fight book censorship in Florida schools and libraries (NPR).
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