Posted on June 16, 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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The Safekeep by Yael Van der Wouden and The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke have received this year's Women's Prize for Fiction and Nonfiction, respectively (The Guardian).
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Alexander Sammartino has received the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction award for his debut novel, Last Acts (Literary Hub).
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The 2024 Bram Stoker Award winners, celebrating the best in horror writing, were announced over the weekend (Book Riot).
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Norma Swenson, who helped make the book Our Bodies, Ourselves into the feminist health classic it is today, died May 11 at age ninety-three (The New York Times).
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Marthe Cohn, a Jewish nurse who provided crucial intelligence for the Allies during World War II and wrote of her experiences in Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany, died May 20 at age 105 (The New York Times).
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Kelly Jensen interviewed two members of the South Carolina Association of School Librarians, a group that has been on the frontlines of efforts to fight its state's book bans, in her leadup to the roundup of ban and censorship news around the country (Book Riot).
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Actress Emily Blunt has confirmed that The Devil Wears Prada 2 — a sequel to the movie adaptation of Lauren Weisberger’s novel The Devil Wears Prada — begins production next month (Deadline).
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And here are four horror movies set to come out in 2026 that are based on or inspired by novels (Book Riot).
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