Posted on August 15, 2024 at 8:50 AM 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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Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who won Olympic gold this summer, has named author J.K. Rowling in a complaint over "acts of aggravated cyber harassment" (Variety).
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Another Olympic champion, track star Allyson Felix, is writing a memoir; Fast and Slow doesn't have a release date yet, but it does have a publication deal (Publishers Weekly).
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Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, may be writing a tell-all memoir; speculation over the book posits that a second exclusion of her, husband Harry, and their two children from a royal gathering is the motivation (Yahoo!).
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Betty A. Prashker, a pioneer in the publishing industry for both being a woman and also publishing such female authors as Susan Faludi, Judith Krantz, and Jean M. Auel, ha died at the age of ninety-nine (The New York Times).
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A GoFundMe campaign to repair a Liverpool library that was damaged in rioting earlier this month has raised nearly £250,000 (over $320,000) with authors Matt Haig and Nigella Lawson among those who have donated (The Guardian).
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