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Posted on October 25, 2023 at 7:59 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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Oprah Winfrey has chosen Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward as her 103rd book club pick; Winfrey called the just-released novel "a vital work for our culture."
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Michelle Obama will narrate a new audio version of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are; this one drops October 31, the sixtieth anniversary of the book's original release, according to The Associated Press.
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A 2.5-year project to digitize every Geoffrey Chaucer work held by the British Library is now complete, so anyone with an internet connection can now see the 25,000 images contained in these sixty-plus works (The Guardian).
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As reported earlier, a cultural hub cancelled an event over authors' comments on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; 92NY's staffers are also resigning, reports NPR.
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Writer Heba Abu Nada was killed last week by an Israeli airstrike; Literary Hub shared a bit about her as well as the final words she wrote.
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