Posted on September 23, 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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Read an excerpt of Patricia Lockwood's new release, Will There Ever Be Another You (Literary Hub).
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A federal judge tossed out Donald Trump's lawsuit targeting The New York Times, four of its reporters, and Penguin Random House — which published a book written by two of those reporters — on Friday, saying that the complaint as filed was “improper and impermissible” (The New York Times).
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With the school year barely under way, twenty-one US colleges have received false reports of active shooters on campus, with many of these hoaxes claiming the culprit is in the library (Inside Higher Ed).
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Author Richard Beard has written and shared a memoir in the style of a chessboard; the publication, called The Universal Turing Machine, shares its name with a project inviting the public to contribute their own similarly templated memoir (The Guardian).
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A group is raising funds to save the collection of longtime Kansas City bookstore Willa’s Books & Vinyl, whose owner closed up shop in July; members of the Kansas City Defender are hoping to build a public archive out of it (The Washington Post).
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Writer Jack Henry Abbott was captured on this day in 1981, two months after he had fatally stabbed a man; Abbott was a career criminal who had charmed author Norman Mailer, whose influence helped Abbott find a publisher for his book (History.com).
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