Posted on December 13, 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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Debut author Cait Corrain has lost her agent and her publishing contract after she admitted to and apologized for review-bombing other authors on Goodreads (The New York Times).
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Strand Magazine will share a previously unpublished poem from novelist Raymond Chandler; "Requiem" was written around a year after the author of The Big Sleep lost his wife Cissy (NPR).
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Dictionary.com has chosen "hallucinate" as its word of the year for 2023.
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A Scottish politician plans to formally ask Cambridge University Library to return Scotland's oldest surviving manuscript, a tenth-century book that features the oldest surviving example of written Scots Gaelic (The Guardian).
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Michael Bishop, an author who made his name in science fiction and went on to explore other genres, has died at the age of seventy-eight; he won the Nebula Award in 1982 for No Enemy but Time (The New York Times).
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Author and LGBTQ rights advocate Jennifer Finney Boylan has been elected president of PEN America, taking over from Ayad Akhtar (The New York Times).
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