Posted on February 14, 2025 at 3:00 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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The Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush's guest post on the religious community's role in fighting book bans leads into Kelly Jensen's weekly roundup of the news of bans and challenges across the US (Book Riot).
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Also scary: a new version of Hansel and Gretel, illustrated with sketches that author Maurice Sendak did for an opera version of the tale and written by Stephen King (Associated Press).
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Filmmaker Maggie Betts is the new director and script co-writer of Netflix's movie adaptation of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Deadline).
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Spotify, the Black List, and the Jed Foundation are teaming up to offer five $10,000 grants to authors of unpublished fiction with mental health narratives; the first Spotify x JED Impact Awards will be given out October 10 (Publishers Weekly).
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Ruins, Child — the debut novel of Giada Scodellaro — has been announced as the 2024 Novel Prize winner; you'll have to wait until next year to read it, though (Literary Hub).
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Thomson Reuters has won a fair-use ruling against its former competitor, Ross Intelligence, which it alleged took copyrighted material in building an artificial intelligence tool (Reuters).
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