Posted on September 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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Writers Maaza Mengiste and Bryan Washington are among this year's recipients of the MacArthur Foundation's $800,000 fellowship grants (NPR).
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The Goldsmiths Prize has revealed its shortlist; the award honors fiction that “breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form” (The Guardian).
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You can read part of Cherise Saywell's short story "Ditto," which won this year’s BBC National Short Story Award (The Guardian).
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With a little over a week before the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature is announced, we have some predictions in the form of bookmakers' odds (Literary Hub).
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A Harry Styles pop-up store in New York City's East Village has riled its neighbors, including bookstore owner Bonnie Slotnick, who was arrested recently over a clash with a staff member of the pop-up (Gothamist).
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Booksellers have sent an open letter to industry groups American Booksellers Association and the American Booksellers for Free Expression, expressing "urgent concern" over a presidential security memo that claims to be identifying left-wing violence (Literary Hub).
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