News of note for readers: May 5, 2026

Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!  

• Congratulations to the Pulitzer Prize winners! They are: Angel Down by Daniel Kraus (fiction); There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone (general nonfiction); Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li (memoir and autobiography); We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore (history); Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution by Amanda Vaill (biography); and Ars Poeticas by Juliana Spahr (poetry) (Book Riot).

• Five major publishers plus author Scott Turow have filed a class-action copyright infringement lawsuit against Meta and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, over claims that they illegally used copyrighted material to train their AI program (The New York Times).

• Read an excerpt from John of John, the third (and latest) novel by Douglas Stuart; it was also chosen as Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick (Literary Hub).

• A 100-year-old Chesterfield coat that belonged to author F. Scott Fitzgerald — and that appears in a photo taken of him fresh off the success of This Side of Paradise — could be yours for $25,000 (Vanity Fair). 

• Weber State University's censorship conference has been, itself, censored out of concerns over Utah's anti-DEI law (404 Media).