Posted on December 7, 2023 at 1:00 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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British poet Benjamin Zephaniah, known for his focus on political injustice as well as his turn on the show Peaky Blinders, has died at age sixty-five; Zephaniah's obituary in the Guardian also links to samples of his poetry.
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The California book club that spent nearly thirty years working through James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is ... now re-reading it (The New York Times).
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Scholar Alessandro Gallenzi discovered that Roman police were investigating British poet John Keats shortly before his death, by noticing that police registers mentioned it but with the name misspelled as Xeats (The Guardian).
And, of course, the best-of-2023 book lists keep coming ...
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Electric Literature announced the best novels of 2023 in its opinion.
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The 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards are in!
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The Atlantic released its best books of 2023, defining "best" as having made editors think while also being compulsively readable. (The Atlantic's full list is behind a paywall; we've linked to the Book Riot post sharing the top five.)
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Book Marks now has the best-reviewed nonfiction books of 2023, to accompany yesterday's fiction roundup.
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