Newswire
Posted on March 20, 2024 at 8:00 AM 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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Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater has become the first book for young audience to win the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (The Associated Press).
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A teacher's impromptu request struck such a chord with Tommy Orange that the author not only visited his class for free, but his publisher also sent free copies of There There and Wandering Stars (The New York Times).
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Students in a suburban Chicago school district will no longer join the rest of the state in voting for the Rebecca Caudill Awards because school board members said there was no proof that the list of nominees wasn't political (Book Riot).
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Paulin Hountondji, a philosopher from Benin whose published works included a memoir and the essay collection African Philosophy: Myth and Reality, has died at the age of eighty-one (The New York Times).
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