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Tom Hanks' publisher announces ‘wildly ambitious’ first novel

Sep 28 2022: Oscar winner Tom Hanks’s debut novel has been announced, and is due out next year. The book, Hanks’s second foray into fiction has been described by its publisher as a “wildly ambitious” story about the making of a film.

The Making of Another Motion Picture ...

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They tried to shut down Drag Story Hour. A Montana bookstore fought back

Sep 28 2022: The Guardian explores the phenomena of Drag Queen Story Hour by focusing on an event at a bookstore in Helena, Montana, and then broadening out to look at the wider picture:

The premise of Drag Queen Story Hour is simple: to have drag performers dressed as queens, ...

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Hilary Mantel, prize-winning author of historical fiction, dies at 70

Sep 23 2022: The Booker prize-winning author of the Wolf Hall trilogy, Dame Hilary Mantel, has died aged 70 of a stroke, her publisher HarperCollins has confirmed.

Mantel was regarded as one of the greatest English-language novelists of this century, winning the Booker Prize ...

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How to beat a book ban: students, parents and librarians fight back

Sep 21 2022: The censorship of books in the US has reached crisis level.

More than 2,500 different book bans were enacted in schools across 32 US states during the 2021-2022 school year, according to a new report by Pen America. And attempts to ban books from libraries are on ...

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Longest single-volume book in the world goes on sale – and is impossible to read

Sep 21 2022: A limited edition single volume of the long-running manga One Piece is being billed as the longest book in existence.

At 21,450 pages, it is physically impossible to read, making it less of a book and more of a sculpture.

Priced at €1,900 (£1,640), the book isn’t ...

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On eve of Banned Books Week 2022, ALA says challenges are rising

Sep 16 2022: This year's Banned Books Week, the American Library Association's annual celebration of the freedom to read, is set to run from September 18-24 under the theme "Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us." And there is no question that it comes at a critical time.

In a ...

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Spanish novelist Javier Marías dies in Madrid hospital aged 70

Sep 13 2022: The Spanish novelist Javier Marías, author of All Souls, A Heart so White, and the epic, three-part Your Face Tomorrow – and a writer regularly touted as a candidate for the Nobel prize for literature – has died of pneumonia in hospital in Madrid at the age of 70.

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Barbara Ehrenreich, explorer of prosperity’s dark side, dies at 81

Sep 08 2022: Barbara Ehrenreich, the journalist, activist and author, died at 81 on Thursday at a hospice facility in Alexandria, Va., where she also had a home. Her daughter, Rosa Brooks, said the cause was a stroke. She was the author of more than 20 books including Nickel and ...

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