News of note for readers: February 2, 2024

Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days!

• Olga Tokarczuk reveals the cover of her soon-to-be-translated The Empusium (Electric Literature)

• Resignations, censures follow in wake of Hugo Awards controversy (Publisher Weekly) 

• How much has LGBTQ+ representation grown in middle-grade fiction? (Book Riot)

• The week's book censorship news (Book Riot)

• Spotify claims to have paid audiobook publishers "tens of millions" in royalties (The Guardian) 

• Best-selling biographer Anne Edwards dies at age ninety-six (The New York Times)

• Lawrence Longer, a scholar of Holocaust literature, dies at age ninety-four (The New York Times)