Posted on May 14, 2025 at 8:19 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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James Folta stumbled upon a 2023 study, focusing on Kansas City, Missouri, that found that "public libraries may reduce crime within its nearby proximity" (Literary Hub).
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The current edition of Strand Magazine includes a recently discovered short story by Graham Greene, called "Reading at Night," and a little-known short story by Ian Fleming, called "The Shameful Dream" (The Guardian).
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Amazon is offering its AI production technology to select publishers so that audiobooks can be narrated and, later in the year, literature can be translated (The Guardian).
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Wooden carved statues of JRR Tolkien and his wife, Edith, will be unveiled June 6 in the East Yorkshire village of Roos, thanks to the influence that the area in general and a particular summer event in it had on the author (The Guardian).
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Writer and editor Elizabeth Pochoda, who worked at such publications as The Nation, Vogue, and Entertainment Weekly, died May 8 at age eighty-three (The New York Times).
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