Posted on August 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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Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh (novel), Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher (novella), and To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose (young adult book) were among the 2024 Hugo Award winners (Literary Hub).
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Check out the recently unveiled cover of And, Too, the Fox, a poem written by US Poet Laureate Ada Limón and illustrated by Gaby D’Alessandro (Book Riot).
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Netflix has released the trailer for the movie Uglies, based on the novel of the same name by Scott Westerfeld (The Hollywood Reporter).
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Mary Wings, the first openly gay woman to write a comic book about lesbians and the author of the Emma Victor detective books, has died at the age of seventy-five (The New York Times).
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Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson is working on a new novel, The Wayfinder; it's expected out in fall 2025 (Publishers Weekly).
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Artificial intelligence is helping scholars identify and piece together fragments of the ancient poem known as the Epic of Gilgamesh (The New York Times).
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Professor and writer Edwin L. Battistella explores the ways in which the word "existential" is being used in ways that deviate from the specific definition (Oxford University Press).
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