Posted on May 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the politics-adjacent bookish news of the past few days.
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David Richardson, the new acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, wrote a novel he describes as "about 80 percent" autobiographical; Kate Aronoff gives 2019's War Story a not-so-glowing review (The New Republic).
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The inaugural Climate Fiction Prize and its £10,000 (over $13,000) prize have gone to Abi Daré's And So I Roar, a sequel to her debut novel that highlights how a continent that emits very little is bearing the brunt of climate change (The Guardian).
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Street Historians, an Edinburgh-based tour company, will replace its Harry Potter-themed walking tours in June with LGBTQ+ history tours; the move both honors Pride Month and reflects the company's discomfort with author J.K. Rowling's stated opposition to transgender rights (Gayety).
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The latest installation in the Hunger Games series, Sunrise on The Reaping, has outpaced first-month checkouts for its predecessor, to the tune of a 515 percent increase — and no, there is no decimal point missing; author Suzanne Collins notes that the political questions raised in the dystopian books have only grown more and more relevant (Book Riot).
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