Posted on February 13, 2025 at 8:27 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!
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Writer Amy Tan, best known for The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter’s Daughter, has decided against having all of her papers destroyed posthumously and decided to leave her archives to the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley (The New York Times).
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Author Adalyn Grace shared an excerpt of her upcoming novella, Holly, which continues her Belladonna series and comes out September 30 (Cosmopolitan).
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The audiobook version of Sunrise on the Reaping, the fifth book in Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games series (though not chronologically), will be narrated by actor Jefferson White (Yellowstone); this novel tells Haymitch Abernathy's story, comes out March 18, and is slated to become a movie in 2026 (People).
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Author Rebecca Yarros teased some of the plot points in the next Empyrean book and discussed the progress of the Fourth Wing TV show (Variety, contains spoilers).
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Christopher Jencks, a prominent sociologist who wrote the influential book The Homeless, died Saturday at age eighty-eight (The New York Times).
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