Posted on July 16, 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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Multi-award-winning novel The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera is among the contenders for this year's Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction (Electric Literature).
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Evan Wright, author of the book Generation Kill (which in turn inspired an HBO miniseries), has died at the age of fifty-nine (The Guardian).
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Best-of lists really are the gift that keeps on giving — you have the initial presentation and then all the armchair-quarterbacking; for example, here are seventy-one more best books of the 21st century so far (Literary Hub).
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With J.D. Vance being named as Donald Trump's running mate, it was also inevitable that we'd begin looking back at his hit memoir, Hillbilly Elegy (The New York Times).
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