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Posted on October 25, 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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Kelly Jensen’s weekly roundup of book ban news opens with an exhortation to vote in down-ballot races and advice on how to do so in the most informed way possible (Book Riot).
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Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, spoke at Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival as part of the launch for Navalny's posthumous prison memoir (The Guardian).
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Antonio Skármeta, a Chilean novelist, screenplay writer, and playwright, has died at the age of eighty-three (The New York Times).
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England's Royal Society of Literature has launched a program through which writers — particularly those with low incomes and/or no dedicated writing space at home — can stay at Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo's cottage for a month for free (The Guardian).
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Congratulations to the forty-six books in the running for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction; a six-title shortlist will come out November 12, and winners will be revealed January 26 (American Library Association).
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