Posted on May 21, 2025 at 8:00 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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A writer has apologized for using artificial intelligence to generate a summer reading list — run in several newspapers across the US — that mostly contains books that don't actually exist (NPR).
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Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, has become the first short-story collection to win the International Booker Prize for translated fiction (The Guardian).
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Author Claire Legrand is revising — and relaunching — her YA series Empirium for adult readers (Instagram).
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Michael Ledeen, an advisor to Ronald Reagan involved in the Iran-Contra scandal who also wrote some three dozen books including the memoir Perilous Statecraft: An Insider’s Account of the Iran-Contra Affair, died Saturday at age eighty-three (The New York Times).
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