Posted on January 8, 2026 at 8:00 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!
-
Renee Nicole Good, the woman fatally shot by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis yesterday, was a prize-winning poet (Literary Hub).
-
Good, then known as Renée Nicole Macklin, received the 2020 Academy of American Poets Prize for "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs," which you can read online in full (Poets.org).
-
Evangelical author Philip Yancey will retire from writing and speaking because he had been engaged in a long-term extramarital affair (The New York Times).
-
See the cover for and learn the design process behind The Emilys by Heather Abel (Electric Literature).
Categories: Today in Books