Posted on April 3, 2025 at 9:17 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 shortlist for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction has been released; a winner will be announced May 1 (Literary Hub).
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Check out the cover of Lightbreakers by Aja Gabel, which comes out November 4, and hear from the designer (Electric Literature).
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Authors and publishing industry professionals are protesting outside of Meta’s London office today to continue to pressure the company to make right how it used copyrighted books, without permission or compensation, to train its AI tools (The Guardian).
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In case you haven't noticed, right-wing groups are pushing an unprecedented number of bans aimed at restricting which books appear in libraries (The Guardian).
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