Posted on December 9, 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!

  • Twelve Nobel laureates have written to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to urge him to help free writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who's spent most of the past decade in prison in Egypt (The Guardian).

  • Romance novelist Chiung Yao, described as one of the most successful writers in the Chinese-speaking world, has died at the age of eighty-six (The New York Times). 

  • Dolly Parton talks about her new children's book, Dolly Parton's Billy the Kid Comes Home for Christmas (NPR).

Categories: Today in Books

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