Friday Link-O-Thon

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.

NOTE: Writer error earlier today meant that the wrong post got sent as Today in Books. Sorry about that. This is today’s Today in Books.

Quiet news day before the holiday weekend, so it’s a good time to square my bookmarked link accounts.

• Print Sales Fell 3.1% in the First Quarter of 2026 [Publishers Weekly]
• Very Hungry Caterpillar Video Game Comes to Apple Arcade [Apple]
• Viggo Mortensen’s Aragorn to Be Recast in ‘Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum’ [Variety]
• Why Swedish Schools Are Bringing Back Books [Undark]
• Tennessee librarian fired for refusing to move more than 100 books from children’s to adult section [Associated Press]
• Is It Wrong to Write a Book with A.I.? [The New York Times]
• 23 Books in 23 Days: Everything Jeremy O. Harris Read While Imprisoned in Japan [Vanity Fair]
• 16 Strangers, One 304-Page Novel and a Weekend of Reading Aloud [The New York Times]
• What Are the Routines of So-Called Super-Readers? [Lit Hub]
• What Bookstores Want From Traditional Publishers—and How the Bookstore Market Has Changed [Jane Friedman]
• 5 Years of Lessons From Running My Own Bookstore [Ryan Holiday]
• ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ TV Series From Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door, Chris Yost Lands at Peacock [Variety]
• First-of-its-kind publisher grows out of Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop [MPR News]
• Penguin to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT version of German children’s book [The Guardian]