Posted on September 8, 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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Authors who filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Anthropic could receive around $3,000 each from the artificial intelligence company if a judge approves a $1.5 billion settlement in the case (NPR).
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Kelly Jensen shares several caveats about both this week's roundup of book censorship news and future ones, along with a preview of an updated survey on parental perception of school and public libraries (Book Riot).
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Barnes & Noble is looking to acquire the bookselling company Books Inc., which filed for bankruptcy in January (Publishers Weekly).
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McGill University has released the shortlist for the 2025 Cundill History Prize; the finalists will be announced September 30 and the winning book will be announced October 30 (Literary Hub).
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James Patterson, in partnership with PEN America, the Authors Guild, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, has launched a grant program to help emerging writers; the first twelve recipients of his Go Finish Your Book grant — worth up to $50,000 — were announced Wednesday (Associated Press).
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Edgar Feuchtwanger, author of the memoir Hitler, My Neighbor: Memories of a Jewish Childhood, 1929-1939, died August 22 at the age of 100 (The New York Times).
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Richard Grant describes the experience of visiting the late Cormac McCarthy's personal library, to help scholars examine and catalog the 20,000-plus volumes there (Smithsonian magazine).
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A Kentucky school district says students are checking out books from the library at a record rate, just a month into the district's first year with a cellphone ban (WAVE 3).
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Jamie Canaves highlights eight new mystery, thriller, and true-crime literary adaptations to watch this month (Book Riot).
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