Posted on December 3, 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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Wicked may be grabbing the headlines, but there are many other literary adaptations headed to both big and small screens this month (Book Riot).
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Ferdia Lennon has been awarded the 2024 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction, meaning a pig will now be named after his novel, Glorious Exploits (The Guardian).
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The Nero Awards announced their 2024 shortlists; the four category winners will be announced January 14, and an overall winner will be revealed March 5 (The Guardian).
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Costco announced that in January, it will remove the permanent book section from 500 of its 600 stores (Yahoo!).
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Henry David Thoreau warned of "brain rot" — the word chosen as Oxford University Press's word of 2024 — back in 1854 (NPR).
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Applications for the Royal Literary Fund’s hardship grants for professional writers in the UK or Ireland increased by 400 percent between last year and this year (The Guardian).
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