Posted on October 30, 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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John Gierach, author of Even Brook Trout Get the Blues and Sex, Death and Fly-Fishing, has died at the age of seventy-seven (The New York Times).
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New Jersey's legislature has passed a bill that would limit the reasons that books could be removed from school and public libraries, as well as protect librarians and library staff from civil and criminal liability for good-faith actions (New Jersey Monitor).
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Bestselling YA fiction author John Green is shifting to nonfiction, with Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection coming out March 18, 2025 (Book Riot).
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Rare-book dealer Glenn Horowitz seemed to have it all ... until musician Don Henley sought legal recourse over the sale of his long-lost notepads (The New Yorker).
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What does the upcoming animated movie Dog Man, based on Dav Pilkey's children's series, mean for the kid-lit industry? (Bloomberg)
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The movie adaptation of Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran can be seen as a powerful symbol that despite war on the ground, peace is in fact possible (Variety).
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