Posted on January 3, 2025 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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Book Riot is applauding for the literature-inspired Golden Globe nominees, but booing the decision of The Daily Show to interview Florida’s most active book banner, even though the intent is to mock and discredit him (Book Riot).
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On a similar note, here are fifty-six small tasks you can do to fight against book banning (Book Riot).
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Joseph Galloway, author of the book We Were Soldiers Once … and Young, has been posthumously given the Presidential Citizens Medal, which is the second-highest medal available to civilians (Associated Press).
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There's long been a claim that monkeys at typewriters could, if given enough time, produce the complete works of William Shakespeare; the latest attempt to prove or disprove this theory has come down with a verdict of "not possible" (The New York Times).
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David Lodge, author of the Campus Trilogy novels, has died at the age of eighty-nine (The Guardian).
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