Posted on January 13, 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!

  • Richard Hays, a theologian who stunned evangelicals with last year's The Widening of God’s Mercy, a book in which he explains that the Bible does not, in fact, condemn homosexuality, died January 3 at age seventy-six (The New York Times). 

  • The Story Prize, which honors the year's best short-story collection, has chosen its three 2025 finalists; the winner will be announced March 25 (Literary Hub).

  • Library workers who have been affected by the California wildfires have two opportunities to join virtual support groups this week (Book Riot).

  • Ta-Nehisi Coates, Sarah Silverman, and other authors suing Meta over copyright infringement say that CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved using pirated versions of copyrighted books to train Meta's artificial intelligence models (The Guardian).

  • Grand Theft Hamlet, a digital narrative/documentary mashup that, yes, has video game characters bringing William Shakespeare's Hamlet to life will hit theaters this Friday (Literary Hub).

  • If you prefer to take your classic literature in more lyrically, however, a band called Mortal Fools — after a line from A Midsummer Night’s Dream — has been setting the Bard, John Milton, and now a translation of Homer to rock music (Chicago Tribune).

  • Read the short story "Familiars" from John Rolfe Gardiner's new collection, North of Ordinary (Literary Hub).

Categories: Today in Books

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