Posted on July 11, 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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A sequel to the movie The Devil Wears Prada (based on Lauren Weisberger’s novel of the same name) is reportedly in the works; it's not an adaptation of Weisberger’s follow-up novel, Revenge Wears Prada (Variety).
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Check out the cover and design inspiration for The Rose by Ariana Reines; the poetry collection comes out next April (Electric Literature).
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Rebecca Yarros has also revealed an upcoming cover; Onyx Storm, the third book in her Empyrean series, comes out January 21, 2025 (TODAY).
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Read an excerpt from 54 Miles by Leonard Pitts Jr.; the book, which comes out July 23, follows civil rights activists in March 1965 from Selma, Alabama, into Montgomery, Alabama (Literary Hub).
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William E. Burrows, author of fourteen books including the Pulitzer finalist This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age, has died at the age of eighty-seven (The New York Times).
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Authors are asking the bookstore chain Waterstones to rehire a worker who was fired after saying she'd destroy books by a writer who seemed to support a publishing network for those "concerned about the impact of gender ideology" (The Guardian).
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