Posted on February 28, 2025 at 12:00 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 first-ever live stage adaptation of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins will premiere October 20 on a specially built stage in London (Broadway World).
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Kelly Jensen revisits fourteen posts on literary activism that still hold true, before covering the latest news of bans and challenges (Book Riot).
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Comic book writer Jenny Blake Isabella, perhaps best known for creating the characters Black Lightning, Misty Knight, and Tigra, has come out as transgender (Pride).
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Joseph Wambaugh, who wrote about police officers in books (The Glitter Dome and The Onion Field), films, and TV shows, died Friday at age eighty-eight (The New York Times).
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Professor Peter Elbow, who created a new way of teaching freshman composition and wrote the book Writing Without Teachers, died February 6 at age eighty-nine (The New York Times).
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Here's how Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman, who was found dead Wednesday at age ninety-five, became a writer in his post-acting days (The Guardian).
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