Posted on March 26, 2026 at 3:00 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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Read an excerpt from the story "Wedding Dresses," which appears in Louise Erdrich's collection Python's Kiss (Literary Hub).
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Check out the cover of Sabaa Tahir's Empire; the book is a sequel to Heir and will come out September 22 (People).
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Activist Gloria Steinem also has a September 22 release; she'll be publishing the memoir An Unexpected Life on her ninety-second birthday (Vanity Fair).
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And speaking of memoirs, a bestselling one — Strangers by Belle Burden — will turn into a Netflix film starring and executive-produced by Gwyneth Paltrow (Vogue).
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The sale of Jack Keroauc's On the Road scroll set a record for the most expensive literary manuscript to sell at auction this month, when someone spent $12,135,000 to own it (Literary Hub).
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Tracy Kidder, author of The Soul of a New Machine and several other in-depth nonfiction narrative books, died March 24 at age eighty (The New York Times).
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Black British Book Festival founder Selina Brown has become the inaugural National Reading Hero recipient of the Queen’s Reading Room medal (The Guardian).
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"The Gathering by" Partridge Boswell has won the UK's National Poetry Competition (The Guardian).
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