Posted on May 16, 2025 at 3:00 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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Hadi Matar, convicted of attempted murder in the August 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie, has received the maximum prison sentence for his crime: twenty-five years (NPR).
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We're getting special 10th anniversary recordings of all five books in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas; the new audiobooks come out May 30 (RBmedia).
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Kelly Jensen explains the actual roles of both the Library of Congress and the librarian of Congress in her introduction to the week's news of book bans and challenges (Book Riot).
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This list of twenty-four books to read over the summer includes both new releases and back catalogue titles (The Atlantic).
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Clear by Carys Davies has won the Ondaatje Prize; the honor gives £10,000 (over $13,000) to a book that “best evokes the spirit of a place” (The Guardian).
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The Coin by Yasmin Zaher won this year's Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, which awards £20,000 (almost $24,000) to a writer who's thirty-nine or younger, like the Welsh poet was when he died (The Guardian).
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