Booksellers’ opinions on book-gifting etiquette

Posted on 12/14/2019 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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This may come a bit too late for organized holiday shoppers, but the Guardian picked the brains of two booksellers...

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Tagged As: Just for fun, The Guardian

New York Times bestsellers: Week of December 22, 2019

Posted on 12/13/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The New York Times’s bestseller list for combined print and ebook fiction is out for the week of December 22,...

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Tagged As: Bestsellers, Book lists, The New York Times

"This Is Us" writer to adapt Angie Thomas's latest novel for the screen

Posted on 12/13/2019 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The film adaptation of Angie Thomas’s latest book, On the Come Up, has a new screenplay writer. Kay Oyegun, a...

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Tagged As: Movie adaptation, Pop culture, Young adult literature

Stephen King’s "The Dark Half" will become a movie ... again

Posted on 12/12/2019 at 01:09 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We have news of a new literary adaptation and an update on an already planned one. Alex Ross Perry will...

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Tagged As: Horror, Literary Hub, Movie adaptation, Pop culture

Sarajevo tells author Peter Handke: Stay out of our city

Posted on 12/12/2019 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Sarajevo officials have officially declared Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke unwelcome in their city. Reuters reports that the cantonal assembly...

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Tagged As: Awards, Scandal

Climate activist — and author — Greta Thunberg is TIME's Person of the Year

Posted on 12/12/2019 at 08:54 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was revealed as TIME magazine's 2019 Person of the Year this morning. The sixteen-year-old Swede is...

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Tagged As: Memoir, Nonfiction, Pop culture

Professor pushes back against library's 350-book checkout limit

Posted on 12/11/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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What could be controversial about an English professor checking out books from his university’s library? Well … the fact that...

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Happy birthday, Grace Paley!

Posted on 12/11/2019 at 09:55 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The writer and activist Grace Paley was born on this day in 1922. We’ll admit it — we weren’t terribly...

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Tagged As: History, Literary Hub, Women in literature

Read Neil Gaiman's latest poem, "What You Need to Be Warm"

Posted on 12/11/2019 at 07:49 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Neil Gaiman is no stranger to the world of writing. Yet he was surprised by the shape that his creative...

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Tagged As: Charity, Poetry, The Guardian

The House's report on its Trump investigation is now an audiobook

Posted on 12/10/2019 at 04:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Well, that was fast. You can now buy the audiobook version of the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Donald Trump’s...

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Tagged As: Audiobook, New release, Politics