Posted on April 2, 2026 at 12:00 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 Language of Liars by S.L. Huang; the novella comes out April 21 (Reactor).
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Check out the cover of Notes to New Mothers, edited by Rebecca Knight and Julie Buntin, and learn about its design process (Electric Literature).
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Stephen Colbert will be co-writing the a Lord of the Rings movie, tentatively called The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past; this film is based on "Fogs on the Barrow-downs," the eighth chapter in The Fellowship of the Ring (Deadline).
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Here's everything we know about the upcoming The Summer I Turned Pretty movie from sources including author Jenny Han and the film cast (Teen Vogue).
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Amazon is making some changes to how it handles magazines in Kindle Unlimited; these changes hit on April 22 (Doctor of Credit).
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Chicago's Newberry Library, an independent research library, is crowdsourcing volunteers to transcribe handwritten documents in its archive — and running into the trouble of finding people who can read cursive and shorthand (Chicago Magazine).
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