One more day, people. One day more.

- After sampling variety of award entrees, Kim Thúy has hit the dessert table and is set to take home a cookbook award;
- Hollywood uses “book club approach” to adaptations;
- 17 bidder auction ends in TV rights going to HBO for 7-figures;RIP: Rudolpho Anaya, Chicano author, dead at 82;
- Illinois appoints its first laureate: John Prine… aw, I am sniffly;
- NYPL main branch lions are bastions of common sense and responsibility;
- S&S hits back at Trump blocks;
- John Bolton book sells 780,000 copies in first week;
- US libraries want Congress to clear the way for them to adapt;
- BBC’s best books of 2020 so far;
- Having trouble finding time to read at home? A primer;