Posted on May 6, 2025 at 7:35 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 Pulitzer Prizes were announced yesterday; among the literary winners were James by Percival Everett in fiction and To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans in general nonfiction (Book Riot, NPR, and The New York Times).
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We can also celebrate the finalists for the 2025 Locus Awards for science fiction and fantasy; the winners will be announced June 21 (Book Riot).
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Several senior officials at the National Endowment for the Arts have resigned in the wake of withdrawal of federal grant money (The New York Times).
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Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth, a collection of short stories, is becoming a TV series for Netflix, with a first season close to being completed (Deadline).
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Film rights to James Patterson and Duane Swierczynski’s upcoming book, Billion-Dollar Ransom, are already in the hands of Amazon MGM Studios (Deadline).
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