Posted on September 18, 2024 at 1:45 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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Frederick Schauer, a legal philosopher who also wrote more than a dozen books, including Free Speech: A Philosophical Enquiry, has died at the age of seventy-eight (The New York Times).
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Lebanese writer Elias Khoury, considered one of the great modern Arabic novelists for such works as Gate of the Sun, has died at the age of seventy-six (The New York Times).
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The widow of nature writer Gerald Durrell has finished a memoir he began before falling ill; the draft plus other previously published work will he released as Myself and Other Animals (The Guardian).
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Richard Osman isn't involved with the film adaptation of his smash hit novel The Thursday Murder Club, but he has confirmed that the Netflix movie has finished filming and is headed into post-production (MovieWeb).
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See the cover of When the Harvest Comes by Denne Michele Norris and learn about the design inspiration for it (Electric Literature).
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