Posted on August 14, 2025 at 3:00 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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A federal judge has struck down Florida's book ban law, emphasizing that materials must be judged as a whole — per a US Supreme Court standard known as the Miller Test — and not, as the Florida law requires, on the basis of passages or excerpts (Book Riot).
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Check out the recently revealed cover of Emma Copley Eisenberg's upcoming story collection, Fat Swim, which comes out April 28 (Electric Literature).
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Indian writer Amitav Ghosh has become the twelfth author to contribute a manuscript to the Future Library; this next book won't be available to read for eighty-nine years (The Guardian).
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