Posted on November 6, 2025 at 1:42 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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Authors reflect on how C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe affected them, in honor of the book's 75th anniversary of publication in the US (The New York Times).
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Tennessee's Rutherford County Library System is closing for several days so it can "meet new reporting requirements from the TN State Secretary’s Office," which Kelly Jensen has good reason to believe is code for removing books (Book Riot).
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CD Rose has won the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize for We Live Here Now; the award goes to “mould-breaking” fiction and carries a £10,000 (over $13,000) purse (The Guardian).
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Author John Russell Taylor, whose work includes the only authorized biography of Alfred Hitchcock, died August 18 at age ninety (The New York Times).
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Check out the cover and design choices for Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth; the book comes out June 9 (Electric Literature).
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