Posted on October 14, 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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Check out the cover for Opting Out by Maia Kobabe; the graphic novel about hitting puberty and the challenges it brings will be published May 5 (Comics Beat).
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Out today: Minor Black Figures, the latest novel by Brandon Taylor, and you can read an excerpt of it (Literary Hub).
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Read a review of Merlin Holland's After Oscar, a recounting of the legacy of Oscar Wilde's various scandals by Wilde's grandson; the book is out in the UK, with a US version coming April 7 (The Guardian).
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Spunk, a play by Zora Neale Hurston, is finally on stage — one hundred years after Hurston wrote the short story upon which she based the play (The New York Times).
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