Posted on July 30, 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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Former President Barack Obama has released his 2026 summer reading list (Book Riot).
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Daggermouth author H.M. Wolfe is denying the allegation that the popular dystopian romance novel is 60 percent written by artificial intelligence (Book Riot).
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A student's "mild discomfort" with an Ottessa Moshfegh short story — linked to in the post about this case, by the way — led to a college instructor being fired, and she's suing (Literary Hub).
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Benjamin Alire Sáenz, author of such books as Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe and the first Latino to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, died July 28 at age seventy-one (Book Riot).
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Patricia Cornwell has revealed the cover of her next Kay Scarpetta book, titled Rapid and Fatal; the book comes out January 19 (People).
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The Before Columbus Foundation has announced the winners of the American Book Awards; a notable and perhaps not expected recipient is late-night TV host Stephen Colbert, who received an anti-censorship award (The Associated Press).
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