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🗞️📖 Bookish News 📖🗞️

🦇 Extra, extra. Read all about it! 📖 Good evening, bookish bats! A lot happened in the publishing industry last month, but here are a few highlights you may have missed!

Adaptations Jennifer Lopez's production company and Netflix - Emily Henry's Happy Place Laika (Travis Knight directing) - Susanna Clarke's Piranesi Universal (Taika Waititi directing?) - Percival Everett's James We Were Liars adds Rahul Kohli to the cast Patrick Dempsey and Sarah Michelle Gellar have joined the cast of the Dexter prequel, Original Sin Chris McKay to direct Brynne Weaver’s Butcher and Blackbird Ayvan Williams, Jessica Belkin & Savannah Lee Smith casted for Becky Albertalli's The Upside of Unrequited First looks for Heartstopper S3 are out Apple TV - Laura Lippman's The Lady in the Lake Adult Swim - Anthony Bourdain’s graphic novel series, Get Jiro! UCP - Chris Witaker's All the Colors of the Dark The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Barbara Robinson A24 - Jennifer Lawrence starring - Paul Rainey's Why Don't You Love Me? Netflix - Richard E. Grant and Tom Ellis casted for The Thursday Murder Club Sony - Michael Crichton and James Patterson's Eruption Renee Zellweger starring in 12 Months to Live Awesomeness - Melissa De La Cruz's Blue Bloods The Uglies adaptation has a release date after 18 years (September 13) The trailer for Elin Hilderbrand's The Perfect Couple is up Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea is being adapted into a graphic novel Prime - Colin Firth joins the cast of Young Sherlock Universal - Omid Scobie's Royal Spin Netflix - Bridgerton Season 4 lead announced Amazon - Fourth Wing series adaptation is a go Apple TV - The trailer for Pachinko! Season 2 is up An adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Nickel Boys will open the 62nd New York Film Festival Patton Oswalt’s comic book Minor Threats is being adapted into a live-action series HBO - Dune: Prophecy releases in November

Cover Reveals Babylonia - Costanza Casati The Get Off - Christa Faust The Ragpicker King - Cassandra Clare What Does It Feel Like - Sophie Kinsella Wake Up and Open Your Eyes - Clay McLeod Chapman Ageless - Renee Schaeffer The Thirteenth Child - Erin A. Craig Song So Wild and Blue: A Life With Joni Mitchell - Paul Lisicky The Meadowbrook Murders - Jessica Goodman On Her Terms - Amy Spalding Onyx Storm - Rebecca Yarros The River Has Roots - Amal El-Mohtar The Wind Weaver - Julie Johnson In Gad We Trust - Josh Gad The Life of Herod the Great - Zora Neale Hurston (posthumous) The Other People - CB Everett How My Neighbor Stole Christmas - Meghan Quinn

Upcoming Releases I Saw the TV Glow director Jane Schoenbrun has a debut novel coming out, Public Access Afterworld Carol Moseley Braun is writing a memoir, Trailblazer: Perseverance in Life and Politics New memoir by Hilary Rodham Clinton The Road is Good - Uzo Aduba Leo Martino Steals Back His Heart - Eric Geron Viola Davis is co-writing with James Patterson

News Macmillan is launching a "new adult fiction" imprint. The 2024 Locus Award winners were announced The 2024 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards were announced Nebula Award winners were announced Random House is buying Boom! Studios

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📆 09 Jan 2024 ✍️ Erin Prater 📰 New, highly mutated COVID variants ‘Pirola’ BA.2.86 and JN.1 may cause more severe disease, new studies suggest 🗞️ Fortune Well

Highly mutated COVID variant BA.2.86—close ancestor of globally dominant “Pirola” JN.1—may lead to more severe disease than other Omicron variants, according to two new studies published Monday in the journal Cell.

In one study, researchers from Ohio State University performed a variety of experiments using a BA.2.86 pseudovirus—a lab-created version that isn’t infectious. They found that BA.2.86 can fuse to human cells more efficiently and infect cells that line the lower lung—traits that may make it more similar to initial, pre-Omicron strains that were more deadly.

In the other study, researchers in Germany and France came to the same conclusion. “BA.2.86 has regained a trait characteristic of early SARS-CoV-2 lineages: robust lung cell entry,” the authors wrote. The variant “might constitute an elevated health threat as compared to previous Omicron sublineages,” they added.

Omicron had a penchant for infecting the upper airway versus the lower airway, where prior versions of the virus tended to accumulate, causing more severe disease. The new studies offer proof that this trend may very well be reversing, the authors contend. If true, it’s bad news for those who hoped the virus was slowly attenuating to the equivalent of a common cold.

“We cannot ignore the evidence” that Omicron may be evolving into a more severe form of itself, Dr. Shan-Lu Liu—professor and co-director of the Viruses and Emerging Pathogens Program at Ohio State University, and lead author on the first study—told Fortune.

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🗞️ Bookish News: August 2024 Edition

🦇 Extra, extra. Read all about it! Good evening, bookish bats! A lot happened in the publishing industry this month, but here are a few highlights you may have missed! ⤵

📺 Adaptations 💜 The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires: limited series on HBO 💜 His & Hers - Alice Feeney: limited series for Netflix 💜 The God of the Woods and The Unseen World - Liz Moore: series for Sony 💜 My Lady Jane cancelled by Prime after one season 💜 Mark Hamill has joined the highly anticipated adaptation of Stephen King’s The Long Walk 💜 Court of Thorns and Roses series faces another setback - showrunner exits the production 💜 Trailer for Season 2 of Pachinko 💜 Britney Spears’ memoir is being made into a biopic 💜 Tom Blyth and Emily Bader starring in Netflix’s People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry 💜 The Games of Thrones prequel promos are out 💜 Burn Book: A Tech Love Story - Kara Swisher optioned as a series 💜 Every Summer After - Carley Fortune - Amazon series 💜 Regretting You - Colleen Hoover - McKenna Grace to star ppposite Allison Williams 💜 Verity - Colleen Hoover - no casting yet 💜 Percy Jackson season 2 is currently filming, and Sandra Bernhard, Kristen Schaal, and Margaret Cho have joined the cast of the Disney+ series 💜 Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt - Sally Field to star 💜 Bridgerton cast Yerin Ha as Sophie Beckett, Benedict’s love interest 💜 The Picture of Dorian Gray is getting a contemporary TV series adaptation 💜 Kazuo Ishiguro’s debut novel A Pale View of Hills is getting an adaptation

📕 Cover Reveals 💜 When We Were Real - Daryl Gregory 💜 Blood on Her Tongue - Johanna van Veen 💜 Frenemies with Benefits - Synithia Williams 💜 The ABCs of Democracy - Hakeem Jeffries 💜 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke 💜 Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us - Jennifer Finney Boylan 💜 The Silent Emperor - Snorri Krsitjansson 💜 Nothing Bad Happens Here - Rachel Ekstrom Courage 💜 Open, Heaven - Seán Hewitt 💜 And, Too, the Fox - Ada Limón & Gaby D’Alessandro 💜 On Again, Awkward Again - Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame Mbalia 💜 Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One - Kristen Arnett 💜 Stage Dance - Torrey Peters 💜 The Hymn to Dionysus - Natasha Pulley 💜 Time After Time - Mikki Daughtry 💜 Pizza Witch - Sarah Graley & Stef Purenins 💜 A Drop of Corruption - Robert Jackson Bennett

⏰ Upcoming Releases 💜 Young Sheldon actress Raegan Revord is publishing her debut young adult novel, Rules for Fake Girlfriends 💜 Liza Minnelli has announced a new tell-all memoir 💜 Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old - Brooke Shields 💜 Maureen Johnson has announced a new book which she describes as “a case file in book form,” with a sealed solution in the back of the book: You Are the Detective: The Creeping Hand Murder 💜 Olympic track star Allyson Felix has sold North American rights to a memoir, Fast and Slow, to the Dial Press 💜 Meghan Markle is allegedly planning on releasing a tell-all memoir 💜 House of Blight - Maxym M. Martineau 💜 Tor acquired Talia Hibbert’s romantasy debut The Last Thorn

🗞️ News 💜 Francine Pascal, author of the Sweet Valley High books, died at 92 💜 This year’s longlist for the Booker Prize has been announced 💜 Flatiron is debuting a new imprint, Pine and Cedar Books 💜 New GMA Book Club pick: The Seventh Veil of Salome - Silvia Moreno-Garcia 💜 Algerian boxer and gold medalist Imane Khelif has filed a cyber harassment lawsuit against Elon Musk and JK Rowling for their disparaging comments about the boxer’s gender during the Olympics 💜 Kristen Bell will be reuniting with her Frozen costar, Josh Gad, to narrate his upcoming children’s book PictureFace Lizzy

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🗞️📖 Bookish News 📖🗞️

🦇 Extra, extra. Read all about it! 📖 Good evening, bookish bats! A lot happened in the publishing industry last month, but here are a few highlights you may have missed!

Adaptations Jennifer Lopez's production company and Netflix - Emily Henry's Happy Place Laika (Travis Knight directing) - Susanna Clarke's Piranesi Universal (Taika Waititi directing?) - Percival Everett's James We Were Liars adds Rahul Kohli to the cast Patrick Dempsey and Sarah Michelle Gellar have joined the cast of the Dexter prequel, Original Sin Chris McKay to direct Brynne Weaver’s Butcher and Blackbird Ayvan Williams, Jessica Belkin & Savannah Lee Smith casted for Becky Albertalli's The Upside of Unrequited First looks for Heartstopper S3 are out Apple TV - Laura Lippman's The Lady in the Lake Adult Swim - Anthony Bourdain’s graphic novel series, Get Jiro! UCP - Chris Witaker's All the Colors of the Dark The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Barbara Robinson A24 - Jennifer Lawrence starring - Paul Rainey's Why Don't You Love Me? Netflix - Richard E. Grant and Tom Ellis casted for The Thursday Murder Club Sony - Michael Crichton and James Patterson's Eruption Renee Zellweger starring in 12 Months to Live Awesomeness - Melissa De La Cruz's Blue Bloods The Uglies adaptation has a release date after 18 years (September 13) The trailer for Elin Hilderbrand's The Perfect Couple is up Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea is being adapted into a graphic novel Prime - Colin Firth joins the cast of Young Sherlock Universal - Omid Scobie's Royal Spin Netflix - Bridgerton Season 4 lead announced Amazon - Fourth Wing series adaptation is a go Apple TV - The trailer for Pachinko! Season 2 is up An adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Nickel Boys will open the 62nd New York Film Festival Patton Oswalt’s comic book Minor Threats is being adapted into a live-action series HBO - Dune: Prophecy releases in November

Cover Reveals Babylonia - Costanza Casati The Get Off - Christa Faust The Ragpicker King - Cassandra Clare What Does It Feel Like - Sophie Kinsella Wake Up and Open Your Eyes - Clay McLeod Chapman Ageless - Renee Schaeffer The Thirteenth Child - Erin A. Craig Song So Wild and Blue: A Life With Joni Mitchell - Paul Lisicky The Meadowbrook Murders - Jessica Goodman On Her Terms - Amy Spalding Onyx Storm - Rebecca Yarros The River Has Roots - Amal El-Mohtar The Wind Weaver - Julie Johnson In Gad We Trust - Josh Gad The Life of Herod the Great - Zora Neale Hurston (posthumous) The Other People - CB Everett How My Neighbor Stole Christmas - Meghan Quinn

Upcoming Releases I Saw the TV Glow director Jane Schoenbrun has a debut novel coming out, Public Access Afterworld Carol Moseley Braun is writing a memoir, Trailblazer: Perseverance in Life and Politics New memoir by Hilary Rodham Clinton The Road is Good - Uzo Aduba Leo Martino Steals Back His Heart - Eric Geron Viola Davis is co-writing with James Patterson

News Macmillan is launching a "new adult fiction" imprint. The 2024 Locus Award winners were announced The 2024 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards were announced Nebula Award winners were announced Random House is buying Boom! Studios

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🗞️📖 Bookish News - March Edition 📖🗞️

🦇 Extra, extra. Read all about it! 📖 Good evening, bookish bats! A lot happened in the publishing industry last month, but here are a few highlights you may have missed!

Adaptations: 🗞️ Natasha Lyonne and Simon Baker cast for Klara and the Sun 🗞️ There are rumors of John Waters filming an adaptation of his novel Liarmouth (Aubrey Plaza to star) 🗞️ Lionsgate to adapt Stephen King's The Dead Zone 🗞️ Lore - Alexandra Bracken 🗞️ The Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler 🗞️ Exit West - Mohsin Hamid (Riz Ahmed to star) 🗞️ The Broken Earth trilogy - N.K. Jemisin 🗞️ The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern 🗞️ The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V. E. Schwab (screenplay revisions) 🗞️ Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir (Ryan Gosling to star) 🗞️ Babel - RF Kuang 🗞️ Netflix dropped a trailer for Ripley 🗞️ There's a trailer for Butterfly in the Sky, the documentary about Reading Rainbow 🗞️ We Are Liars - Mamie Gummer, Caitlin FitzGerald, and Candice King to star 🗞️ Little White Lies - Jennifer Lynn Barnes optioned for a TV series 🗞️ Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is streaming 🗞️ American Psycho is reportedly getting a remake 🗞️ The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA will be a series 🗞️ William Gibson’s Neuromancer is getting a TV series on Apple TV+ 🗞️ Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal are starring in a Broadway revival of Othello 🗞️ The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi - Shannon Chakraborty (series and gaming platform) 🗞️ Whalefall - Daniel Kraus 🗞️ Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot will go directly to streaming (Max) 🗞️ Untamed - Sarah Paulson to play author Glennon Doyle 🗞️ Netflix acquired rights to Laura Dave’s The Night We Lost Him 🗞️ Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus series to be adapted by BBC 🗞️ A trailer for The WIld Robot is up 🗞️ The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles 🗞️ The Sky Blues - Robbie Couch 🗞️ I Wish You All The Best debuted last week at South by Southwest 🗞️ A Teen Titans live-action film is in the works 🗞️ The Summer I Turned Pretty has started to filming season 3 🗞️ Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole series 🗞️ Karin Slaughter is adapting her novel The Good Daughter, starring Jessica Biel 🗞️ Sony Pictures Television is developing Brad Thor’s Scot Harvath series 🗞️ Bill Hader and Quinta Brunson are starring in an animated adaptation of The Cat in the Hat 🗞️ Kerry Washington and Elisabeth Moss are set to star in Apple TV+’s limited series adaptation of Imperfect Women 🗞️ Prime Video is adapting The Davenports by Krystal Marquis 🗞️ The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave is getting a second season at Apple TV+

Cover Reveals: 📖 When Mimi Went Missing - Suja Sukumar (Debut - Nov) 📖 The Life Impossible - Matt Haig (Sept) 📖 Warrior of Legend - Kendare Blake 📖 Sir Callie and the Witch’s War - Esme Symes-Smith 📖 Vilest Things - Chloe Gong 📖 Good Night Thoughts - Max Greenfield (inspired by the late Leslie Jordan) 📖 Compound Fracture - Andrew Joseph White (Sept 3) 📖 Brothers - Alex Van Halen 📖 The Maid and the Crocodile - Jordan Ifueko 📖 Lesser Ruins - Mark Haber 📖 Full Speed to a Crash Landing - Beth Revis 📖 Death at Morning House - Maureen Johnson (August) 📖 Drown Me With Dreams - Gabi Burton (Aug. 20) 📖 The City in Glass - Nghi Vo (Fall) 📖 A Kids Book About Periods - Jessica Biel 📖 Good Lookin' Cookin' - Dolly Parton & Rachel Parton George 📖 Sonny Boy - Al Pacino (Oct) 📖 Pony Confidential - Christina Lynch 📖 Keep It In the Dark - Justin Arnold (Dec 3) 📖 All the Hearts You Eat - Hailey Piper (Oct 15) 📖 Believe: The Untold Story Behind Ted Lasso, The Show That Kicked Its Way into Our Hearts - Jeremy Egner 📖 Viewfinder - Jon M. Chu (director of Crazy Rich Asians and In the Heights) 📖 The Accomplice - Curtis Jackson 📖 The Teller of Small Fortunes - Julie Leong 📖 The Hollow and the Haunted - Camilla Raines 📖 Such Lovely Skin - Tatian Schlote-Bonne 📖 We Are All Ghosts in the Forest - Lorraine Wilson (Nov 7) 📖 A Wolf Steps in Blood - Tamara Jerée (April 16) 📖 The Most Famous Girl in the World - Iman Hariri-Kia (Sept 17) 📖 Phantom Hearts - Rosie Talbot (Sept)

Upcoming Releases 🗞️ We Live Here Now - Sarah Pinborough (Summer 2025) 🗞️ Richard Osman announced a new crime series 🗞️ Questlove's new book on the history of hip-hop (June 11) 🗞️ Life Form - Jenny Slate (Oct) 🗞️ Stephen Colbert's and Evie McGee Colbert's cookbook (Sept) 🗞️ Heir - Sabaa Tahir (Oct) 🗞️ Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (Or Just Me)? - Jay Ellis (July 9) 🗞️ Intermezzo - Sally Rooney (Sept 24) 🗞️ Dinner for Vampires - Bethany Joy Lenz (Oct. 22) 🗞️ The City and Its Uncertain Walls - Haruki Murakami (first novel in six years) 🗞️ Willow the White House Cat - Jill Biden (June)

Other News: 📖 Libby announced its new book awards (Libbys) and winners 📖 2024 Bram Stoker Awards finalists announced 📖 Anything But You grossed $189 million (second-highest Shakespeare adaptation) 📖 There's a surge in AI-written biographies 📖 Tor Books' imprint Bramble is using AI cover art 📖 BookTuber Cindy Pham wrote a book and signed with an agent 📖 ESPN’s Andscape to launch book imprint with Disney this fall 📖 A teenager has opened a YA bookstore in LA 📖 Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor called out The Color Purple remake for its erasure of Black lesbian romance 📖 30% of Netflix's TV shows are based on novels, toys, video games or other existing works 📖 Atria launched a new bilingual imprint 📖 David Goggins is suing Amazon for fake copies of his book Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds 📖 Jesmyn Ward signed a three-book deal with Scribner 📖 Haruki Murakami revealed his short story “Kaho” 📖 Dakota Johnson announced her new book club, TeaTime Book Club 📖 Finalists for the 59th Annual Nebula Awards were announced 📖 Publishers filed an appeal brief in the Internet Archive copyright suit 📖 Author Lauren Groff is opening a new bookstore 📖 The American Library Association was awarded the Toni Morrison Achievement Award

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📆 05 Jan 2024 ✍️ Erin Prater 📰 Highly mutated COVID variant ‘Pirola’ JN.1 is fueling the pandemic’s second highest U.S. wave—and it’s still growing 🗞️ Fortune

COVID has reached its second-highest U.S. peak of the pandemic, according to federal wastewater data released Friday—this as related ER visits, hospitalizations, and deaths continue to rise.

National COVID wastewater levels sat at 12.85—the number of standard deviations above baseline—on Dec. 30, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Until then, the pandemic’s second-highest peak had occurred on Dec. 31, 2022, during the XBB.1.5 “Kraken” surge, when that level sat at 10.16.

The pandemic’s all-time high still looms further upward—at 23.34 on Jan. 8, 2022, the peak of the first Omicron wave.

With COVID testing at all-time lows, wastewater is now the best and quickest way to gauge the growth of the virus, experts say. Other indicators, like hospitalizations and deaths, only reflect the most severe cases and lag by several weeks.

This winter’s surge—fueled by the highly mutated and now globally dominant variant JN.1, which some say represents a new era of the pandemic—has yet to peak. It likely will in a week or two, according to Jay Weiland, a variant forecaster with a reputation for high accuracy and veritably the only left in the business, at this late date.

Globally, JN.1 accounts for more than 40% of COVID sequences reported worldwide, according to outbreak.info, a collaborative effort supported by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The variant began picking up steam globally last fall, and its growth became near linear last month.

“This is what happens with an Omicron-like event of a new, hyper-mutated strain … that picks up a critical added mutation, … giving it huge growth advantage and fast rise to global dominance,” Dr. Eric Topol, founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, Calif., and a leading authority on the virus, said via Twitter on Friday.

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📆 04 Jan 2024 ✍️ Erin Prater 📰 ‘Pirola' JN.1 is the probable future of COVID pandemic, experts warn—but you didn’t hear it from the WHO 🗞️ Fortune

Most new variants differ from each other in just one or two small ways. But with its 30-plus additional mutations, Pirola is as genetically divergent from Omicron as Omicron was from the original COVID.

In short, JN.1 is, by all appearances, a game changer. Most—if not all—variants of consequence for the foreseeable future could very well evolve from it, experts tell Fortune—until the virus throws another black swan-style curveball, anyway.

Whether the WHO will recognize it with a Greek letter—in what would be its first designation in over two years—remains to be seen.

As of Jan. 3, it had not—and some experts say that’s a mistake.

Among them: Dr. Eric Topol, founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, Calif., and a leading authority on the virus.

When cases of JN.1 began skyrocketing this fall, “instead of side-stepping, the WHO could have easily given it a new Greek letter,” he told Fortune.

Dr. Michael Osterholm—director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) and another leading authority on COVID—says the authority to designate a new Greek letter should rest with the WHO alone, not citizen scientists or anyone else, for that matter.

But “I’m not saying they’ve done it appropriately,” he told Fortune, speaking of the international health organization’s variant-naming committee.

JN.1 represents “a very serious evolution of the virus,” he said. “And it isn’t over.”

Ryan Hisner—a top citizen variant tracker who discovered the second and third known cases of BA.2.86—says “Pirola” has brought about a startling realization: Omicron wasn’t a “one-off anomaly.”

“Ever since BA.1 emerged, people have asked whether the original Omicron event was essentially a freak accident or something we could expect to occur repeatedly in the future,” he said. “JN.1/BA.2.86 has really changed the outlook on this front. I think it’s now much more widely accepted that these extreme [evolutionary] events will be a semi-regular occurrence with SARS-CoV-2.”