Posted on December 2, 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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Read an excerpt from Michael Palma's translation of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy; this latest version comes out tomorrow (Literary Hub).
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Jon Ransom has won a Polari Prize for the second straight year; last year he received the first-book award, while this year he took home the LGBTQ book award for his second novel, The Gallopers (The Guardian).
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Oxford University Press has chosen "brain rot" as its word of the year for 2024, while Cambridge Dictionary selected "manifest" for its word of the year.
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Andrew Proctor wants to see the city of Portland honor its literary giants, like Ursula K. Le Guin, as it examines the monuments already in place (The Oregonian).
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A survey of fiction, nonfiction, and picture books aimed at readers ages three to eleven and published in the United Kingdom in 2023 found a significant decrease in the presence of "racially minoritised characters" (The Guardian).
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Evangelical author Hal Lindsey, best known for The Late Great Planet Earth, has died at the age of ninety-five (The New York Times).
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