Posted on May 30, 2025 at 12:00 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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Thirteen-year-old Faizan Zaki won the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee with the word "eclaircissement" (Associated Press).
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Kelly Jensen opens her weekly roundup of book challenge and ban news with tips on building a voters guide for public library board elections (Book Riot).
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Speaking of bans and challenges ... the frequently targeted picture book And Tango Makes Three turns twenty this year; read an interview with authors Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson about the book's journey (Book Riot).
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Actor Sir Ian McKellen will open a historic all-trans and nonbinary production of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare; the London show benefits UK-based trans charity Not a Phase (Attitude).
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Jacob Elordi and Lily-Rose Depp are set to star in the movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's 1968 novel Outer Dark (Deadline).
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Netflix's new adaptation of Forever by Judy Blume, which just released this month, will get a second season (Just Jared).
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Watch Abraham Verghese, author of The Covenant of Water and several other books, give Harvard University's spring 2025 commencement speech (YouTube).
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