Posted on April 1, 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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This is not an April Fools' joke -- the entire staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency that awards grant funding to museums and libraries across the United States, has been placed on administrative leave (NPR).
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Writers Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman will lead the indie magazine The Rumpus starting May 1 (Literary Hub).
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Emily Martin highlights the movie and TV adaptations of books that are premiering this month (Book Riot).
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A quarter of the way through it, we have a best books of the 21st century, so far, broken into the categories of fiction, nonfiction, teens and YA, middle grade, and picture books (Kirkus Reviews).
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Read "The Fifth Story" from Clarice Lispector's Covert Joy: Selected Stories, which came out today (Literary Hub).
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