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Poet and author Paulette Jiles, 82, died on July 8 in San Antonio. She recently posted on her blog that she was diagnosed with “some kind of non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver.” Jiles’s literary output included poetry, memoirs, Westerns, and science fiction. She was the first American to receive Canada’s Governor General’s Award for her poetry collection Celestial Navigation and her 2016 novel, News of the World, was a finalist for the National Book Award.

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Gillian Daniels's JENNY WILL EAT YOU NOW, pitched as The Shape of Water meets SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN, in which an immortal swamp woman and human-eater of legend stalks a handsome man through modern Boston, and as she falls in love, must decide which hunger to satisfy—her hunger for human flesh or for love and acceptance, to Kimberly Laws at Gallery, at auction, for publication in summer 2026, by Jenna Satterthwaite at Storm Literary Agency (world English). Translation: jenna.stormliteraryagency@gmail.com Film: … read more
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