Posted on November 21, 2024 at 8:00 AM 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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A woman has come forward to say she was the late author Cormac McCarthy's "secret muse" and that their relationship began when she was sixteen and he was forty-two (The Guardian).
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We have winners of the National Book Award: James by Percival Everett (fiction); Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León (nonfiction); Something About Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (poetry); Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ (translated literature); and Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi (young people's literature) (The New York Times).
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The musical Wicked, based on Gregory Maguire's novel, is coming to the big screen in two parts; here's what you need to know about the November 22 release (Book Riot)
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