Posted on October 19, 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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Watch the trailer for the film based on Ottessa Moshfegh’s first novel, Eileen; the movie version of Eileen stars Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway and comes out December 1.
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Pop star Britney Spears's upcoming memoir, The Woman in Me, has joined the ranks of books that reach bestseller status on Amazon before they've even been released (NPR).
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Prominent writers including Sally Rooney, Naomi Klein, Edwidge Danticat, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Laila Lalami, and Viet Nguyen are among the six hundred signatories on an open letter calling for "an end to the violence and destruction in Palestine," which you can read in the London Review of Books.
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Stephen Rubin, who published such authorial powerhouses as John Grisham and Dan Brown, has died at the age of eighty-one, according to The New York Times.
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Big Five publisher Penguin Random House and the nonprofit We Need Diverse Books are welcoming submissions to the 2024 Creative Writing Awards, which will be open until January 16 or until 1,000 applications have been received — whichever comes first.
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