Posted on August 12, 2026 at 3:00 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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An energy company has relocated a planned cable in Wales so that it doesn't go through the fictional gravesite of Dobby the house elf from the Harry Potter books (People).
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Danika Ellis wants readers to take a step back from the conversation about artificial intelligence in literature and define what specific actions make them declare a work to have been "AI-written" (Book Riot).
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The internet has opinions on the new option on Instagram to display your current read as a banner, and S. Zainab Williams suggests we all just calm down about it (Book Riot).
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Staffers who are also parents, teachers, and librarians share their picks for the best children's books of the century, so far (Book Riot).
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Richard Lingeman, author of biographies of Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis as well as Small Town America: A Narrative History 1620-the Present, died July 5 at age ninety-five (The New York Times).
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