Posted on October 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM 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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Seven large philanthropic foundations have created the Literary Arts Fund, to help counter massive federal cuts to nonprofit literary arts program; the fund plans to distribute "at least" $50 million in grants over the next five years (NPR).
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Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin Pritchard, authors of The Day The Books Disappeared, showed up at a California elementary school as scheduled to speak to students ... only to be told they couldn't speak about the trend of book banning, which is the topic of their book (Book Riot).
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The organizer of the Black British Book Festival and Pan Macmillan are collaborating on a publishing collaboration, focusing in particular on newer authors, in response to the decline in Black writers being published (The Guardian).
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Esquire has revealed its picks for the best books of 2025 (Book Riot).
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