Posted on June 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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Last week, two San Francisco bookstores announced that they are no longer selling the Harry Potter book series because of author JK Rowling’s anti-trans activism (Literary Hub).
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Dennis Lehane, Gregory Maguire, and Lauren Groff are among the seventy-plus authors who have signed an open letter asking the big five publishing companies to promise they'll never release books created by artificial intelligence (NPR).
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John Robbins, who made the case for his belief in plant-based nutrition in the bestseller Diet for a New America, died June 11 at age seventy-seven (The New York Times).
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Jane Stanton Hitchcock, whose crime novels including Trick of the Eye, Social Crimes, and Mortal Friends skewered the elite society she'd been born into, died June 23 at age seventy-eight (The New York Times).
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Andrew Limbong, host of the Book Of The Day podcast, reports on romantasy's literary surge, including what about the genre is so appealing to its readers (NPR).
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Read a review of the stage production of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (The New York Times).
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