Posted on July 12, 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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The New York Times list of the best books of the 21st century is finally available in full.
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A novel that Zora Neale Hurston was working on at the time of her death, called The Life of Herod the Great, will come out on January 7, 2025 — what would've been the author's 134th birthday (Book Riot).
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James McBride, author of such works as Deacon King Kong and The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, will receive the 2024 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction (Library of Congress).
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Journalist Dan Collins, who co-wrote a book criticizing Rudy Giuliani's actions before and after the 9/11 terror attacks, has died at the age of 80 (The New York Times).
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Penguin Random House is acquiring Boom! Studios, the comic book publisher that released Keanu Reeves’s BRZRKR (The Hollywood Reporter).
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Check out images from Hulu's adaptation of Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (Literary Hub).
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There's no shortage of responses to Alice Munro's daughter's essay revealing Munro's support of her child-molester husband, but this one from author Brandon Taylor is especially poignant and thoughtful (Substack).
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