Posted on April 29, 2020 at 11:39 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Ready for more authors writing about pandemics past and pretend? NPR has two of them today. One is another novelist...
Posted on April 28, 2020 at 1:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
April 28 holds quite a bit of significance for literary folks. Harper Lee and Terry Pratchett were both born on...
Posted on April 22, 2020 at 4:36 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Here’s another instance of a book that wasn’t written in response to the coronavirus pandemic, but that is eerily appropriate...
Posted on April 14, 2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Bookworms are all behaving differently during the coronavirus pandemic. Some are seizing the opportunity to read more and grabbing new...
Posted on April 13, 2020 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Author Lois Lowry is no stranger to more somber topics, with such books as The Giver and Number the Stars...
Posted on April 9, 2020 at 2:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
We recently saw a cartoon that said, “2020: Written by Stephen King, directed by Quentin Tarantino.” It made us laugh,...
Posted on April 7, 2020 at 2:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
It’s the best of times and the worst of times for some authors, in terms of the topics and themes...
Posted on April 6, 2020 at 2:58 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Julia Alvarez’s novel Afterlife, which releases tomorrow, is notable for a few reasons. One, it’s her first novel for adults...
Posted on March 31, 2020 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Esther Safran Foer, of course, began her new memoir well before anyone predicted the coronavirus pandemic and its subsequent challenges....
Posted on March 27, 2020 at 12:26 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
We’re officially in the twentieth-anniversary month of the beloved book Because of Winn-Dixie. Earlier this year, the podcast The Yarn...
