Posted on October 31, 2024 at 8:39 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the (non-Halloween) bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!
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Esquire magazine chose its fifteen best nonfiction books of 2024 ... yes, even though there are still two months left (Book Riot).
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Kathleen DuVal has won the 2024 Cundill History Prize for her book Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (Literary Hub).
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Taylor Jenkins Reid has a new book in a new universe (ha) coming out next year; Atmosphere, a romance between two astronauts set in the 1980s, hits shelves June 3 (People).
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Military historian Lewis Sorley, author of A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last Years in Vietnam, has died at the age of ninety (The New York Times).
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Charles Brandt, whose true-crime bestseller I Heard You Paint Houses was adapted into the movie The Irishman, has died at the age of eighty-two (The New York Times).
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Read the long-lost short story "Doll" by Daphne du Maurier (Literary Hub).
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