Posted on March 10, 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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Jenni Fagan's memoir, Ootlin, won the Gordon Burn Prize and its £10,000 (about $13,000) purse; the book is also in the running for the Women's Prize for Nonfiction (news and an excerpt from the Guardian).
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See which books and authors won this year's Libby Awards (OverDrive).
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Hoopla, which provides many libraries with digital media, has announced that it will do more to cull low-quality AI-generated books from its collection in response to a website's investigation (404 Media).
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Rebel With a Clause is a new documentary that chronicles Ellen Jovin's visit to every single US state with her public "grammar table" (The New York Times).
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Fifteen years after her debut novel, The Help, rocketed her into the spotlight, Kathryn Stockett is nearly ready to release a second book; The Calamity Club comes out in April 2026 (The New York Times).
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The first-ever unions at Barnes & Noble stores formed last week at three New York City locations, and workers in Bloomington, Illinois, followed suit (RWDSU).
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