Posted on July 29, 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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Watch a teaser for Netflix's movie adaptation of Denis Johnson’s novella Train Dreams; the film stars Felicity Jones and Joel Edgerton and will be available to stream starting November 21 (YouTube).
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Take a much more extensive look at Guillermo del Toro's movie adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which is also expected to hit Netflix later this year (Vanity Fair).
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In other classic literature news, James Folta recently discovered that back in 2010, biologists studying mice decided to name a particular pheromone in male mouse urine "darcin," after Pride and Prejudice's Mr. Darcy (Literary Hub).
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Kobo ereaders will soon be able to save web articles again, with a new tech partnership coming to replace the now-defunct Pocket integration (Instapaper).
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Thomas Sayers Ellis, an artist whose mediums included poetry, photography, and music, died July 17 at age sixty-one; he was also known for founding the Dark Room Collective, a famous community of Black poets (The New York Times).
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Robert W. Fuller, a longtime academic who dedicated himself to the idea of dignity for all, as expressed in his book Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank, died July 15 at age eighty-eight (The New York Times).
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