Posted on May 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Here's what's top of mind for bookworms, literary bloggers, and those in the publishing biz.
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Meet Sam Freedman, whose book-proposal seminar at Columbia Journalism School has yielded 113 book contracts and 95 published books out of the roughly 675 students who took (The New York Times).
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The latest, and perhaps most surprising, fans of JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy: far-right tech power players (The New York Times).
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John Jeremiah Sullivan, noting that Mark Twain seems to be having a "moment" again, takes a deep dive into the author's world (Harper's Magazine).
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Climate change denial is having a moment in speculative fiction (Los Angeles Review of Books).
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