Posted on October 28, 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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If you enjoy book awards, then today is a great day for you; first, we have Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2025 (Book Riot) ...
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... then the finalists for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction (The Guardian) ...
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... and also the first-ever joint winners of the UK's Forward Prize for Best Collection, given to Vidyan Ravinthiran and Karen Solie (The Guardian).
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Artists around the US are organizing the Fall of Freedom, meaning events and publications all throughout November as a "wave of creative resistance" (Literary Hub).
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And in news of the weird: scholars have discovered a cache of letters that revealed how poet WH Auden formed a friendship with a sex worker who had previously gone on trial for breaking into Auden's home (The Guardian).
Categories: Today in Books