Posted on February 29, 2024 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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Sally Rooney's fourth novel, Intermezzo, will come out September 24; it follows two brothers who on the surface are fairly different from each other and whose lives are overturned by their father's death (The Guardian).
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A Minnesota representative has introduced a bill to end book bans (Book Riot).
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Butterfly in the Sky, a documentary about the show Reading Rainbow, will hit select AMC theaters starting March 17 and become available for streaming April 30 (Variety).
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Some three-plus years after publishers promised to diversify the overwhelmingly white industry, a survey has found that not much progress has been made (The New York Times).
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Organizers refunded entry fees to a Roald Dahl-inspired event in Glasgow, Scotland; fans were outraged at the disconnect between AI-generated promotional images of Willy's Chocolate Experience and the actual "sparsely decorated warehouse" (The Guardian).
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Meanwhile, in Paris, a department store has unveiled literary-inspired artwork called "Mise en Page" featuring two huge blue people to much wider acclaim (Literary Hub).
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