News of note for readers: December 21, 2023

Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!

• The New York Times shared the poem "Primavera" by the late Louise Glück to mark the winter solstice.

• Book Riot looked at nineteen different top-checkout lists from US libraries of varying sizes in order to guess at the most popular library books of 2023.

• Electric Literature got to reveal the cover of Emma Copley Eisenberg's debut novel, Housemates.

• Cari Beauchamp, author of Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood and many other related works, has died at the age of seventy-four (The New York Times).