Posted on May 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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Andrew Gross, a thriller author who published solo as well as with James Patterson, died April 9 at age seventy-two (The New York Times).
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Prolific author David Horowitz, whose political activism swung from the far left to the far right, died April 29 at age eighty-six (The New York Times).
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Online fiction writing school The Novelry has launched a competition called The Next Big Story, which will award its winner £75,000 (about $99,500) based on just three pages of their novel (The Guardian).
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New research suggests that author Barbara Pym, known to have worked as a government censor during World War II, might also have been working for British security agency MI5 (The Guardian).
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New videos from BBC Maestro use an AI-generated Agatha Christie to provide crime writing lessons (The Guardian).
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The Mellon Foundation has made a $15 million commitment to the Federation of State Humanities Councils, to help counteract $65 million in federal funding cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities (Publishers Weekly).
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Porter Anderson breaks down US book sales in the first quarter of 2025 (Publishing Perspectives).
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