Posted on December 10, 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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Merriam-Webster has chosen "polarization" as its word of the year for 2024.
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Award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni has died at the age of eighty-one; we'll have one more book, called The Last Book, from her next fall (NPR, The Guardian, The New York Times).
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Actress Sarah Jessica Parker will join four authors on the judging panel of the 2025 Booker Prize (The Guardian, The New York Times).
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The movie Wicked — which takes inspiration from Gregory Maguire's novel of the same name — has become the highest-grossing adaptation of a musical into a film, in just eight days (Collider).
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Read an excerpt from The Rest Is Memory by National Book Award winner Lily Tuck (Literary Hub).
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Aura Print looked at a number of recent screen adaptations and compared their IMDB ratings with their source books' Goodreads rating, to determine the best and worst adaptations (Book Riot).
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