Posted on December 11, 2024 at 8:36 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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Bestselling author James Patterson continued his tradition of giving out holiday bonuses to bookstore employees across the nation; six hundred workers at indie shops received $500 each (The Associated Press).
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Check out the cover of Daniel Tam-Claiborne's upcoming novel, Transplants, and learn more about the design process (Electric Literature).
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The United Kingdom's largest trade union of writers, illustrators, and translators is calling on celebrities and their publishers to properly acknowledge their ghostwriters (The Guardian).
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Author Charles Onana and his publisher are being fined almost $15,000 and ordered to pay more than $11,000 to human rights groups who successfully sued over their denial of the Rwandan genocide; it's possibly the first conviction of violating France's law against denying officially recognized genocides (The New York Times).
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Music journalist Jonathan Scott talks about his just-released book, Into the Groove: The Story of Sound From Tin Foil to Vinyl, which gives proper credit to the person who first recorded sound (NPR).
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An episode of the TV show Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, based on a comic series, has reportedly been pulled because it focuses on a transgender character (The Verge).
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