Posted on August 23, 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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Kelly Jensen's weekly roundup of book bans and challenges opens with a reminder of the importance of making sure you are registered to vote — something that many book-ban-friendly states have been making more difficult (Book Riot).
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Oscar Wilde's The Picture Of Dorian Gray is being adapted into a TV series for Netflix; the show will be called The Grays and provide a contemporary take on the book (Deadline).
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If you happen to have a Victorian-era book, the Poison Book Project would like to examine it for toxic dyes (NPR).
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Jon Cho-Polizzi, translator of Max Czollek’s De-Integrate: A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century, has won the 2024 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize (Literary Hub).
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