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Hachette Book Group and Hachette UK’s Raising Readers children’s literacy initiative is teaming with Barnes & Noble and Waterstones to host three days of storytimes for three-to-eight-year-olds at schools and bookstores on both sides of the Atlantic. Readers are showing renewed interest in Dolly Parton’s books, several of which returned to our bestseller lists following the performer’s death last week. And courtesy of the PW archives, we’re revisiting our 1983 conversation with Gloria Steinem, who died yesterday at 92. In other news, Rachel Reid shared details about Unrivaled, the next installment in her Game Changers romance series, at a recent Heated Rivalry fan night at Boston’s Fenway Park, Deadline reports. ThriftBooks is closing its warehouse in Halethorpe, Md., and laying off 136 workers, according to the Baltimore Business Journal. Mother Jones announced it is suing OpenAI, prompting the Trump administration to file a brief in the lawsuit in support of the AI company. On Substack, Jarrett Kobek takes a closer look at the plagiarism accusations against Ross Barkan, suggesting that the investigation into the allegations may have relied on AI, potentially distorting its findings, via Zona Motel. For the New Yorker, Robert Rubsam examines a wave of new novels depicting underground nightlife. And the New York Times marks the 25th anniversary of the classic children’s series Artemis Fowl.