Posted on September 3, 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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A fifth woman has accused author Neil Gaiman of sexual assault; the author and his publishers have not responded to requests for comment (The Bookseller).
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A formal complaint against Robin DiAngelo, author of the bestseller White Fragility, has been filed, saying that she plagiarized parts of her Ph.D. dissertation; a review is under way, and DiAngelo denies the claims (The New York Times).
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On a lighter note, see which five books are in the running for the three categories of the 2024 Kirkus Prize (Literary Hub).
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Check out the cover and a passage from John Scalzi's next novel, When the Moon Hits Your Eye; the book comes out March 25 (SciFiNow).
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You can also admire the cover of Better: A Memoir About Wanting to Die, the debut memoir by Arianna Rebolini coming out April 29 (Electric Literature).
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Scholar Eliyahu Rips, whose research into the first book of the Old Testament inspired the bestseller The Bible Code (written by a journalist whose work Rips publicly criticized), died July 19 at age seventy-five (The New York Times).
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