Posted on May 8, 2025 at 8:30 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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New audiobook versions of Ray Bradbury's novels will enlist such stars as Penn Badgley, Paul Giamatti, and LeVar Burton as narrators (People).
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Margaret Atwood has received the Griffin Poetry Prize's 2025 Lifetime Recognition Award (Literary Hub).
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Read an excerpt from Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil by Oliver Darkshire; the cozy fantasy, which reimagines Boccaccio’s Decameron, comes out May 13 (Reactor).
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You can also read an excerpt from Costumes for Time Travelers by A.R. Capetta; the young adult fantasy novel comes out May 27 (Reactor).
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Four senior officials who have stepped down from the National Endowment for the Arts, following the dramatic cuts to the agency's funding, have agreed to share their resignation email publicly (N+1).
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Author and scholar Eve L. Ewing is part of a trio buying the bookstore Build Coffee & Books, an indie shop on the south side of Chicago (Literary Hub).
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