Posted on June 16, 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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Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award winners! (Lambda Literary)
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An internal investigation found that a human sexuality textbook does not, in fact, violate a state law against distributing "obscene material," but nevertheless the University of Nebraska at Kearney decided to discontinue the use of said book beginning in this fall (PEN America).
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For the first time in over a hundred years, a first-edition copy of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is headed to auction; this copy, expected to sell for between 400,000 to 600,000 pounds ($540,000 to $800,000), bears Brontë's male nom de plume and contains spelling errors that illustrate how quickly it was rushed to print (The Associated Press).
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ThriftBooks believes that Americans are only reading 300 billion pages annually — down from numbers a decade ago — and has issued a challenge to return the nation to its 500-billion-page annual totals (Book Riot).
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Read an excerpt from Reimagining Grief: A New Path to Finding Healing, Strength and Joy After Loss by Kate Doerge, who wrote the book after losing her parents and her teen daughter in a six-year span (People).
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