Posted on April 18, 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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The first trailer for Netflix's limited-series adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez has been released (Book Riot).
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Florida's governor has signed a bill that limits how often a person can challenge a book in a school district if they don't live in that district (The Associated Press)
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Anthropologist Barbara Joans, who took to a motorcycle in her sixties to do the research that yielded the 2001 book Bike Lust: Harleys, Women, and American Society, has died at the age of eighty-nine (The New York Times).
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Of Cattle and Men, written by Ana Paula Maia and translated by Zoë Perry, has won the Republic of Consciousness Prize; the award honors books from small publishers (The Guardian).
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