The other book news we missed in October 2024

Our newswire editor was off on vacation most of this month, but she's back on the clock now and clearing out her RSS feeder with all the literary news she (and perhaps you) missed.

Here is the rest of the bookish coverage of note from that time.

Bans and challenges

• The state of book banning in the UK (Book Riot)

• A South Carolina library won't buy new books for those under 18 (Book Riot)

• Libraries are using weeding as a quiet way to ban books (The New York Times)

• Book challenges are a financial strain on libraries, and that's the point (Book Riot)

Obituaries

• Lore Segal, Austrian-American author, dies aged 96 (The Guardian)

• Lily Ebert, Holocaust survivor, author and TikTok star, dies at 100 (The New York Times)

• David Garrard Lowe, defender of historic architecture, dies at 91 (The New York Times)

• How to Eat Fried Worms author Thomas Rockwell dies at age 91 (The New York Times)

The publishing industry

• Amazon announces first Kindle ever with color screen (CNBC)

• ByteDance, owner of TikTok, is moving into print books (The New York Times)

Miscellaneous

• Margaret Atwood was advised to just find a good man. Her response: 'You're an idiot' (NPR)

• Leading Ukrainian poet Marianna Kiyanovska is touring the US (NPR)

• Watch the new trailer for the Like Water For Chocolate adaptation (YouTube)