Posted on June 19, 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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Here’s the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction shortlist; a winner will be announced — and receive $25,000 — on October 21 (Literary Hub).
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At age twenty-seven, Margaret McDonald has become the youngest ever winner of the Carnegie Medal for writing with Glasgow Boys; the Carnegie Medal for illustration went to Olivia Lomenech Gill for Clever Crow, written by Chris Butterworth (The Guardian).
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York County Library in South Carolina wants to ban trans- and gender-themed books from its children’s and teen collections (Book Riot).
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Vicki Goldberg, a photography critic who also wrote an acclaimed biography of pioneering photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, died May 29 at age eighty-eight (The New York Times).
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