Posted on September 20, 2024 at 3:11 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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Prophet Song by Paul Lynch (fiction) and Built From the Fire by Victor Luckerson (nonfiction) have won the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prizes (Literary Hub).
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Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy will release a memoir about her complex relationship with her mother; Mother Mary Comes to Me comes out in September 2025 (The Guardian).
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Artist Mark Podwal, whose work included illustrations for books by Elie Wiesel, has died at the age of seventy-nine (The New York Times).
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You can (checks notes) read an edited excerpt from the epilogue to the audiobook version of Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty by Hillary Rodham Clinton (The Guardian).
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Alice Feeney’s bestseller Sometimes I Lie has been picked up for adaptation into a TV series (Deadline).
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If you're wondering which other TV adaptations of books are coming out, here's what to expect for the rest of 2024 (Deadline).
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