Posted on March 21, 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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Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Awards! (Literary Hub).
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Gisèle Pelicot, the survivor of a mass rape, is writing a memoir; A Hymn to Life will be published early next year (The Guardian).
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Careless People, an exposé from former Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams, has become a bestseller despite Facebook owner Meta's efforts to block the book (The Guardian).
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services, currently under threat of elimination, has a new acting director (NPR).
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Kelly Jensen analyzes what the latest developments at IMLS mean (spoiler: nothing good) in the introduction to her weekly roundup of book bans and challenges (Book Riot).
Categories: Today in Books