News of note for readers: July 14, 2025

Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice! 

• Raynor Winn’s publisher is delaying the release of her next book as controversy swirls around her 2018 memoir; Penguin said it's postponing the release to support Winn, who has denied allegations that she lied in The Salt Path (The Guardian).

• Read an excerpt from If You Love It, Let It Kill You by Hannah Pittard, the novel that has caught attention for, among other reasons, coming out after Pittard's ex-husband released a novel about their divorce ... which, in turn, Pittard had already written about albeit as a memoir (Electric Literature).

• Sarah J. Maas says she's finished the first draft of the sixth installment of her smash hit romantasy series A Court of Thorns and Roses (Screen Rant).

• Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah won the second annual Inside Literary Prize, which is unique in that it's judged by currently incarcerated people (Literary Hub). 

• Kelly Jensen explains that the reduction in stories about pushback against Pride displays in libraries is coming from a reduction in actual Pride displays in libraries, unfortunately (Book Riot).

• Harvard University and the Boston Public Library are among the institutions that have recently shared centuries-old books with artificial intelligence companies to help train their tools (The Associated Press). 

• Fanny Howe, who wrote across mediums from poetry (including the National Book Award finalist Second Childhood) to nonfiction to fiction for all ages, died Tuesday at age eighty-four (The New York Times).

• John Martin, who founded Black Sparrow Press, the longtime publisher of Charles Bukowski, died June 23 at age ninety-four (The New York Times).