Newswire
Posted on February 3, 2025 at 3:02 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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Trailblazing singer and activist Josephine Baker's memoir, Fearless and Free, was published in 1949 in French, but is only now reaching English-language readers in the US (People).
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Damsel by Elana K. Arnold and Like A Love Story by Abdi Nazemian have become the fifteenth and sixteenth books banned in all Utah public and charter schools (Book Riot).
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The publisher of the Simon & Schuster imprint says that an informal policy that authors find blurbs for their books is no longer in effect, because it can create "an incestuous and unmeritocratic literary ecosystem that often rewards connections over talent" (The Guardian).
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NetGalley has launched its own e-reading platform and added LCP-protected downloads.
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