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Posted on January 20, 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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Scholar Sophie Oliver discusses finding what she was later able to confirm were two poems written by Virginia Woolf for her niece and nephew in a folder of letters (NPR).
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The US Postal Service will release stamps with images from the book Goodnight Moon, illustrated by Clement Hurd and written by Margaret Wise Brown, this year (USPS).
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Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, whose memoir Farewell to Manzanar told of her and her family's time in an internment camp for Japanese Americans, died December 21 at age ninety (The New York Times).
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Glen Weldon explains why he won't read any further Neil Gaiman work, but why he also won't toss out the Gaiman books that he currently owns, in the wake of graphic sexual assault allegations against the author (NPR).
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Musician Amanda Palmer issued a statement last week saying that she was "profoundly disturbed" by the sexual abuse complaints against Neil Gaiman, her ex-husband, but has no comment on the matter, to protect the son they share (Newsweek).
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Kelly Jensen took an in-depth look at plans for an "adults-only" room, the ongoing ban of 140 books for readers of all ages, and new restrictions on children's access to not just local but out-of-system libraries that have taken place in Idaho's Kootenai County (Book Riot).
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