Posted on May 3, 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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Another Colleen Hoover novel is being adapted for the screen; Verity has been acquired by Amazon MGM (The Hollywood Reporter).
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The weekly roundup of anti-reading action leads off with bills that would expose librarians to criminal charges (Book Riot).
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Congratulations to the winners of the 78th annual Edgar Awards (Mystery Writers of America).
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A German TV biopic of Franz Kafka strays from the typical image of the author as a tortured artist (The Guardian).
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China scholar Robert B. Oxnam, author of A Fractured Mind: My Life With Multiple Personality Disorder, has died at the age of eighty-one (The New York Times).
Categories: Today in Books