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Posted on October 22, 2024 at 8:16 AM 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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Naomi Shihab Nye has won the 2024 Wallace Stevens Award, and Evie Shockley has been awarded the Academy of American Poets Fellowship (Literary Hub).
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Anne de Marcken's novel It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over has received the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction; the announcement also includes a link to an excerpt from the book (Literary Hub).
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A headline truly for this era: Bob the Drag Queen will release an alternate-universe novel about Harriet Tubman, titled Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert, on March 25 (Literary Hub).
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Here are some book-to-screen adaptations that you might have missed this year (Book Riot).
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Penguin Random House had added a do-not-scrape-for-AI page to its books (Gizmodo).
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