Posted on April 8, 2026 at 3:19 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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The 2026 recipients of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 award have been announced: Megan Kamalei Kakimoto for Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare, Anika Jade Levy for Flat Earth, Carrie R. Moore for Make Your Way Home, Maggie Su for Blob: A Love Story, and Stephanie Wambugu for Lonely Crowds (Literary Hub).
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Fiction writers Gwendoline Riley and Adam Ehrlich Sachs; playwrights S Shakthidharan and Christina Anderson; nonfiction writers Lucy Sante and Kei Miller; and poets Joyelle McSweeney and Karen Solie are this year's Windham-Campbell Prize winners (The Guardian).
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Peter Schrag, author of Paradise Lost: California’s Experience, America’s Future, died March 19 at age ninety-four (The New York Times).
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Norman Bussel, author of My Private War: Liberated Body, Captive Mind: A World War II POW’s Journey and grandfather of essayist Rachel Kramer Bussel, died April 7 at age 102 (The New York Times).
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