Posted on February 11, 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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Barbara Kingsolver has used royalties from her award-winning novel Demon Copperhead to fund an addiction recovery house for women in Lee County, Virginia, where she did considerable research on the opioid crisis (The New York Times).
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Tom Robbins, author of such novels as Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All, and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, died Sunday at age ninety-two (NPR and The New York Times).
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Read an excerpt of Sun City by Tove Jansson; this translation by Thomas Teal comes out February 18 (Literary Hub).
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Angie Cruz, editor and author of such novels as How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water, Dominicana, and Let it Rain Coffee, has received the 43rd John Dos Passos Prize (Literary Hub).
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Mad About The Boy, the movie based on Helen Fielding's fourth Bridget Jones novel of the same name, premieres Thursday on Peacock for US viewers (Glamour), though in the United Kingdom, it's coming to theaters and has broken advance ticket sales records (The Independent).
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