Posted on November 18, 2024 at 3:00 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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James by Percival Everett has been named Barnes & Noble's 2024 Book of the Year, and the retailer has also added two more year-end honors: Best Gift Book of the Year, which went to The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan, and Best Children's Book of the Year, which went to Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell (B&N).
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Author Patrick Radden Keefe discussed the process of taking Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland from book to streaming series (The New York Times).
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Filmmaker Martin Scorsese is seriously interested in adapting Marilynne Robinson’s Home (Literary Hub).
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Learn more about the Scottish island of Jura — the remote and austere place where George Orwell wrote 1984 (JSTOR Daily).
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