Posted on November 19, 2025 at 1:00 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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Thousands of copies of former Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson’s upcoming children's book will be destroyed because of her ties to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein; Flora and Fern: Kindness Along the Way had originally been set to go on sale in October, but the publisher delayed it to November 20 and then pulled it entirely (The Guardian).
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Alice Wong, a disability rights activist and editor and author of numerous books including Year of the Tiger, Disability Visibility, and Disability Intimacy, died Friday (Book Riot).
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Two authors who didn't know their covers were designed with artificial intelligence learned this news the hard way, when a literary competition disqualified the works over the covers' use of AI (The New York Times).
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Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace turns thirty next year, so naturally it's receiving a special edition with a new cover design (Literary Hub).
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Speaking of thirty years — that's how long Danish author Solvej Balle has spent so far on her seven-part novel about a single day, four installations of which have been translated into English so far (The New York Times).
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