Posted on August 21, 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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Margo Howard, who wrote two books about her famous mother — Eppie Lederer, better known as Ann Landers — as well as advice columns and a memoir of her own, died July 13 at age eighty-six (The New York Times).
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Kelly Jensen's weekly collection of news about book bans and challenges again opens with a piece on the state of reading in prisons — specifically, this week, about how to navigate prison censorship from the outside (Book Riot).
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Eiko Kadono’s second and third Kiki’s Delivery Service books are coming to the US and the English language: book two, Kiki and the New Magic, arrives this Tuesday, while book three, Kiki and the Other Witch, will arrive February 23 (People).
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Tom Hanks could star in a movie adaptation of Allen Levi's bestseller Theo of Golden; the author would serve as an executive producer in a deal currently in under negotiation (Deadline).
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L. Frank Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus — which, yes, references Oz — is being adapted into a live-action movie (Deadline).
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Here's your first look at Edward Bluemel as Agatha Christie's famous Detective Hercule Poirot (Variety).
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John R. Maxim’s Paul Bannerman novels are becoming the first Netflix/AMC Studios co-production; the show will first air on AMC and then come to Netflix in the US and Canada (Variety).
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