Posted on February 25, 2025 at 8:42 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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Miranda July's All Fours, a novel about a 40something woman's sexual awakening after having an affair, has been acquired for a TV series adaptation by Starz (Deadline).
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At least one Department of Defense school has removed J.D. Vance's memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, from its shelves to comply with orders to pull books "potentially related to gender ideology or discriminatory equity ideology topics" (Task & Purpose).
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Indiana Gov. Mike Braun has enlisted his wife to find alternative funding sources for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, whose state funding is on the chopping block by members of Braun's party; the Imagination Library sends free books, on a monthly basis, to children for the first five years of their lives (Book Riot).
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All thirteen authors whose books made the International Booker Prize longlist are first-time nominees, while one translator is on there for a record-breaking fifth time (The Guardian).
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Prominent psychiatrist Alvin F. Poussaint, who also wrote books including Why Blacks Kill Blacks and Black Child Care, died Monday at age ninety (The New York Times).
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Chaim Grade’s Sons and Daughters is, at very long last, coming to English; follow the original Yiddish manuscript from discovery to March 25 release (The New York Times).
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