Posted on September 14, 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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Librarians who have lost their jobs for standing up against censorship have been winning wrongful-termination suits (Book Riot).
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Author Salman Rushdie will receive a National Book Award medal for lifetime achievement (The Associated Press).
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Oprah's Book Club turns thirty this month, and Kelly Jensen shares some factoids about its tenure and its plans to celebrate the milestone (Book Riot).
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Author Jodi Picoult had pegged the release of her novel Hollow Bones to the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11, but instead, the book — out tomorrow — is calling to mind the Lindsay Clancy trial (The New York Times).
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Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series turns twenty this year, and the new deluxe edition cover has been unveiled for Eclipse, the third book in the series (People).
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Kristin Hannah has announced her next novel; The Fire, about a woman reconnecting with her estranged daughter, comes out May 4 (People).
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Read an excerpt from Linford D. Fisher's Cundill Prize-shortlisted book Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History (Literary Hub).
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Want another history excerpt? Read about the legacy of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" in this passage from A Washington Irving Sketch Book: Reflections on an American Writer by Phillip Lopate (Literary Hub).
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And in the spirit of spooky excerpts, you can listen to or read from Tomi Adeyemi's upcoming young adult novel, The Siren (People).
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