Posted on December 8, 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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We have two more literary deaths to note: Jane Wodening, who found a small but loyal following as an author later in life, died at the age of eighty-seven; poet and scholar Refaat Alareer, meanwhile, died much younger – just forty-four — in an Israeli airstrike.
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The weekly book ban and challenge roundup from Book Riot opens by pointing out how book bans are financially profitable ... for the pro-ban contingent.
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To end on a less depressing note, learn more about the typewriter collection going up for auction; it includes machines used by Ernest Hemingway, Maya Angelou, Tennessee Williams, and other famous people (not all of them writers) in The New York Times.
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