Posted on July 26, 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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Sony will adapt two more novels by Liz Moore — The Unseen World and The God of the Woods — into series (Deadline).
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The New York Times has two literary obituaries: Rosa Ross, author of Asian cookbooks, and Lewis H. Lapham, the editor of Harper's Magazine who also wrote books.
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Martin MacInnes has won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, which honors the top sci-fi novel of the year, for In Ascension, while Ferdia Lennon has taken the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize for Glorious Exploits, reports the Guardian.
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The Cambridge Dictionary has added more than 3,200 words, terms, and phrases; highlights include "the ick," “IYKYK," "chef's kiss," and "boop" (The Guardian).
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