Posted on January 16, 2025 at 8:00 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!

  • The multi-award-winning documentary Banned Together, which tells the story of three students (and their adult allies) who fought the removal of almost 100 books from their South Carolina school, will be available to stream on Monday in the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Book Riot).

  • Melville House is fast-tracking a paperback edition of a special counsel's final report to Attorney General Merrick Garland; The Jack Smith Report: Report on Efforts to Interfere With the Lawful Transfer of Power Following the 2020 Presidential Election by Donald Trump and Others should be in bookstores "shortly after" Inauguration Day (Publishers Weekly). 

  • Howard Buten, who worked as a clown, an autism therapist, and a cult-followed novelist, died January 3 at age seventy-four; his novel Burt didn't catch on in the United States but became a bestseller in France under the title When I Was Five I Killed Myself (The New York Times).

Categories: Today in Books

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