News of note for readers: February 17, 2025

Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice! 

• Jay Parini, a writer and Robert Frost biographer, discusses the newly discovered and published Frost poem called, hilariously, "Nothing New" (NPR).

• Stephenie Meyer’s series Twilight turns twenty this year, so Little, Brown Books will release three special-edition versions of the books on September 30 (People). 

• A statue of author F. Scott Fitzgerald has been stolen from outside a building at which Fitzgerald once attended school (Literary Hub).

• Actress Julianne Moore's Freckleface Strawberry, a book about a girl who doesn't like her freckles but learns to live with them, and Kathleen Krull's No Truth Without Ruth, a book about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, are among the titles under a "compliance review" at Department of Defense schools (The Guardian).

• Actress Sarah Jessica Parker will receive the PEN Audible Literary Service Award for working to publish underrepresented voices through her SJP Lit imprint and for executive producing the documentary The Librarians (PEN America).

• Three authors of Harry Potter fan fiction will be going mainstream, with trad-pub deals that put their books in stores this summer and early fall; it's the latest example of the increasingly common "pull and publish" trend (NPR).

• Amazon is removing the "Download & Transfer via USB" option for Kindles in hopes of fighting piracy (Android Police). 

• The Palestine Festival of Literature has launched a curated subscription service that delivers, perhaps unsurprisingly, new books on Palestine (Literary Hub).

• South by Southwest is partnering with an existing publishing company to launch a literary imprint; SXSW Books aims to put a spotlight on "trailblazers" in various fields (SXSW).