Posted on August 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM 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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The Kirkus Prize finalists have been chosen from 7,653 eligible titles; a winner in each of the three categories of fiction, nonfiction, and young readers' literature will be announced October 8 and receive $50,000 (Book Riot).
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The National Endowment for the Arts has canceled its $50,000 annual creative writing fellowship program (NPR).
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Artificial intelligence company Anthropic says it has proposed a class settlement in the copyright-infringement lawsuit that authors filed against it (The Verge).
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An online book group that had 1,000 members in 2020 now has 38,000 members worldwide and offers a reading "summer camp" — here's a glimpse of what goes on there (The New York Times).
Categories: Today in Books