Posted on August 26, 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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Ellen O'Connell Whittet reflects on the incredible accomplishments of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, in the wake of the news that the musician and literacy activist has died (Literary Hub).
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Here are the finalists for the 2026 Kirkus Prize (Book Riot).
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Read an excerpt from Notes of Deception by Merryl Goldberg and Vince Houghton; the book, released yesterday, details how four American musicians went undercover in 1985 to report on human rights abuses in the Soviet Union (People).
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Data scientist and English professor Dan Sinykin analyzed publication and sales statistics and discovered that the panic over men disappearing from literature is more accurately described as women having achieved parity (Substack).
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Robert Skidelsky, author of a landmark three-volume biography of economist John Maynard Keynes, died April 15 at age eighty-six (The New York Times).
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