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Meet the 2020 5 Under 35 recipients

Posted on 09/22/2020 at 10:30 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

And here’s our second round of literary award news today. The National Book Foundation announced its 5 Under 35 honorees...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Awards, Book lists

Posted on 09/22/2020 at 08:32 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Today’s first round of awards news comes from overseas. Milan Kundera, the long-exiled Czech author of The Unbearable Lightness of...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Awards, Literature in translation, The Guardian

Posted on 09/21/2020 at 03:56 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It’s certainly not news that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away on Friday. What might be news to...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Classic literature, History, Politics

Posted on 09/21/2020 at 12:24 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Do you ever (or often) forget what you’ve read, as soon as you’ve read it? Try speaking the words out...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Reading

Posted on 09/21/2020 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The literary world lost two members last week. The death of Winston Groom, who wrote the novel Forrest Gump, was...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Fantasy, Movie adaptation, Obituary

Posted on 09/21/2020 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We asked recently on Facebook whether our followers use dog-eared pages or bookmarks to return to where they left off...

Tagged As: Just for fun, Reader stories

Posted on 09/20/2020 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Children’s literature made the headlines in a few interesting ways over the past week. First came news that musician Lil...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Children's literature, Diversity, Pop culture, Scandal

Posted on 09/20/2020 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Here are the literary birthdays to celebrate over the week of September 20, 2020. George R.R. Martin (September 20, 1948):...

Tagged As: History, Just for fun

Posted on 09/19/2020 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The publisher of a woman who recently admitted she pretended to be Black will donate proceeds from her latest book....

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Scandal, The Guardian

Posted on 09/19/2020 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It’s easy to miss the occasional post or two online, so we’ve rounded up some of the highlights from our...

Categories: Favorites

Tagged As: Just for fun