Posted on September 24, 2023 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Here are the literary birthdays to celebrate over the week of September 24, 2023. F. Scott Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896):...
Posted on September 23, 2023 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Here's a collection of literary posts that we didn't have a chance to share on our reader blog this week....
Posted on September 22, 2023 at 2:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Happy release week to author J.M. Coetzee, whose novel The Pole came out on Tuesday. The timing is apt, as...
Posted on September 22, 2023 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Being nominated for the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature is a complicated honor. The award, according to the founders,...
Posted on September 22, 2023 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The 2023 Booker Prize shortlist has been unveiled, and what's most newsworthy about the selection is interestingly different among publications....
Posted on September 22, 2023 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The New York Times’s bestseller list for combined print and ebook fiction is out for the week ending September 16,...
Posted on September 21, 2023 at 2:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The next frontier for bestselling and award-winning author Isabel Allende? Children's literature. The Associated Press reports that Allende has a...
Posted on September 21, 2023 at 12:07 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Here are three more stories about book bans and challenges. Levar Burton will lead Banned Books Week: The Reading Rainbow...
Posted on September 21, 2023 at 10:37 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
September is National Banned Book Month, and Banned Books Week is October 1-7 this year. In honor of the occasion...
Posted on September 21, 2023 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
September is a special month for author Suzanne Collins — last Thursday, specifically, marked the fifteenth anniversary of the release...