Posted on February 26, 2025 at 9:01 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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The National Literacy Trust and Arts Council England have partnered to create a program called A Poem for Your Club, in which a professional poet writes verse for the sports franchise; five British soccer teams — or football clubs, as they're known over there — have chosen to participate so far (The Guardian).
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The 2024 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot, honoring the best in horror and dark fiction, has been released, and winners will be announced June 14 (The Horror Writers Association).
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Jennifer Johnston, a celebrated Irish novelist and playwright whose works included How Many Miles to Babylon? and The Old Jest, died Tuesday at age ninety-five (The Guardian)
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Read what Langston Hughes had to say about Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin in a review that appeared in The New York Times on February 26, 1958 (Book Marks).
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Kelly Jensen unpacks what's behind rumors — which are contradicted by budgetary documents — that Ohio will reduce or eliminate public library funding (Book Riot).
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Jensen also reported on the latest anti-library bill in Iowa, which would cut off certain state funds to any library that's a dues-paying member to the American Library Association or the Iowa Library Association (Book Riot).
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