Posted on September 29, 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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Three early stories from Virginia Woolf have been rediscovered and will be published next week; The Life of Violet, as the three are known, existed publicly in draft form at the New York Public Library, but the revised versions hadn't been made available until recently (The Guardian).
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Solange Knowles has announced a new literary project: a free archive of rare books on Black art and design (Literary Hub).
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Read an excerpt of George Whitmore's 1987 novel, Nebraska (Literary Hub).
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Read an excerpt of Joshua Wheeler's The High Heaven, which comes out October 7 (Electric Literature).
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Robert B. Barnett, who negotiated blockbuster political-memoir deals for prominent clients including presidential couples from both parties, died Thursday at age seventy-nine (The New York Times).
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Tony Harrison, whose work ran on stage and in newspapers but who considered himself simply a poet, died Friday at age eighty-eight (The Guardian).
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