AGP Executive Report
Last update: 2 hours agoCrime & Courts: Rex Heuermann, the Long Island architect tied to the Gilgo Beach serial killings, is set for sentencing after pleading guilty to murdering eight women, capping a case that spawned books and podcasts. Publishing & Culture: The University of Hong Kong and Alliance Française are staging “The Little Prince and the Pilot,” with rare manuscripts, first editions, and Hong Kong-only sculptures ahead of the book’s 80th anniversary. Literary Events: York Mystery Plays Festival and Fringe will host “Voices of the Plays,” a poetry-and-prose night led by Poet Laureate Rose Drew, with an anthology planned for late August by Stairwell Books. Awards: U.S. poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib won the $75,000 Weston International Award for literary non-fiction, with a Writers’ Trust event set for Sept. 14. Books for Readers: A roundup spotlights the best short novels (about 200 pages or fewer) for holiday reading, including Elizabeth Strout’s My Name Is Lucy Barton and Deborah Levy’s Swimming Home. Comics Preview: Image Comics’ If Destruction Be Our Lot #2 returns with robot-cop “maintenance” and mind-wiping sci-fi horror.
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