Newswire
Posted on October 24, 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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One of only three known carbon typescripts of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince, with handwritten corrections from the author on it, will be the first of its kind to go on sale at the end of November (The Guardian).
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The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction, which results in a pig being named after the winning book, has announced its shortlist (The Guardian).
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Musician Bob Dylan, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature a few years ago, happened to wander into the Frankfurt Book Fair ... and tweeted about it (Literary Hub).
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A number of prominent writers, including Viet Thanh Nguyen, Maaza Mengiste, Laila Lalami, and Bryan Washington, have signed a petition asking that Aisha Abdel Gawad be reinstated as writer-in-residence at Wilton Library; she was removed after she expressed concerns about an event moderator's comments on the Israel-Gaza conflict (Change.org).
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Drew Broussard wants to know if you've noticed new paperback books being of surprisingly low quality lately and shares the research on this matter that he's done recently (Literary Hub).
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Novelist, playwright, and critic Gary Indiana has died at the age of seventy-four (Frieze).
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