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Bookseller Imprisoned In China Publishes Smuggled Out Poetry: Today In Books

Bookseller Imprisoned In China Publishes Smuggled Out Poetry

Gui Minhai, a Chinese-born Swedish citizen, is serving a 10-year sentence for selling “gossipy texts on Chinese political leaders” in a bookstore in Hong Kong. Swedish publishing house Kaunitz-Olsson distributed poems on Tuesday written by Minhai, and printed in Chinese and Swedish, that were smuggled out of the Chinese prison: “It would be embarrassing To stop writing poems Because the poetry has been caged.”

Here’s Your Happy Moment For The Day

Here’s Meghan Markle reading Duck! Rabbit! to Archie for his first birthday, filmed by Prince Harry. The adorable video was posted to the Save With Stories Instagram account, Jennifer Garner and Amy Adams collaboration with Save the Children and No Kid Hungry. And clearly Archie is one of us, trying to smuggle in a second book while being read to.

Nicole Kidman Keeps Working On All The Adaptations

Nicole Kidman has a first-look deal with Amazon through her Blossom Films banner and has signed on as executive producer to the adaptation of Kimberly McCreight’s A Good Marriage. This is not Kidman’s first time working with McCreight’s work, as her other novel Reconstructing Amelia is being adapted by Blossom Films for HBO. And if you love mysteries you can hear Liberty rave about A Good Marriage on All the Books!