Posted on March 21, 2024 at 12:21 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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The shortlist for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, which celebrates poetry, novels, short stories and drama by writers aged 39 and under, has been announced (The Guardian).
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Learn about the design choices behind the cover of Book of Kin by Darius Atefat-Peckham; the book, which has already won the Autumn House Poetry Prize, comes out October 25 (Electric Literature).
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Read an excerpt from the recently released novel Piglet by Lottie Hazell (Literary Hub).
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You might not want to revisit 2020, but two new books — 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed by Eric Klinenberg and The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon's Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope by Dr. Cornelia Griggs — revisit what we learned and what we could've done differently during the pandemic (NPR).
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