Posted on August 25, 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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A movie adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play Hedda Gabler will change her onetime admirer Eilert Lövborg's gender to female; Hedda the film comes out October 29 on Prime Video (Vanity Fair and YouTube).
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Count My Lies by Sophie Stava is becoming a limited series at Hulu, with Lindsay Lohan and Shailene Woodley both starring and serving as executive producers (Variety).
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Greg Iles, author of the Natchez Burning trilogy and several other bestselling thrillers, died August 15 at age sixty-five (The New York Times).
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Starling Lawrence, an editor who worked on such iconic books as Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm and Michael Lewis’s Liar’s Poker, died Thursday at age eighty-two (The New York Times).
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Did you know that the title character of Oliver Twist was inspired by the memoir of a real-life "parish apprentice," and that one of his great-great-great-grandsons has written a book about his family's connection to Charles Dickens? (The Guardian)
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