Posted on June 8, 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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Readers took their turn at choosing the best 100 novels of all time, after critics had their say (The Guardian).
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Lucky by Alice Sebold has become the thirty-fifth book banned in all Utah public schools (Book Riot).
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Psychiatrist Robert Coles, who won a Pulitzer Prize for the second and third volumes of his Children of Crisis nonfiction series, died Thursday at age ninety-seven (The Associated Press).
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Twenty Robert Munsch books, including The Paper Bag Princess and several others with Yukon Territory connections, are being translated into Canadian Indigenous languages (CBC).
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In other translation news, a previously unpublished essay by Thomas Mann can be read in online and in English (Equator).
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Despite the book choice and outfit choice being vetted and approved in advance, a Michigan city council decided to cancel the drag queen story hour event in its LGBTQ+ Pride festival (Them).
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Sarah Wynn-Williams, whose memoir Careless People aired dirty laundry about the social media giant Meta, sat wordlessly on stage at a literary event over the weekend; Wynn-Williams is under a temporary legal order blocking her from promoting the book thanks to a Meta lawsuit (BBC).
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The movie version of Lolita turns sixty-four this week; learn how Stanley Kubrick took Vladimir Nabokov's bestseller to the screen and what the author thought of the end result (Literary Hub).
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