Posted on 10/30/2021 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
When it comes to holidays, some folks are adventurous, while others prefer the tried-and-traditional. In this post, Literary Hub has...
Posted on 10/29/2021 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Sylvia Plath is best known for her poetry; William Makepeace Thackeray, his satirical novels. But, as Literary Hub has recently...
Posted on 10/27/2021 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
A new edition of Little Women came out yesterday. But Louisa May Alcott fans don’t need to panic — the...
Posted on 10/25/2021 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
We share bookish birthdays every week, and today we’re adding an extra dose of timely literary factoids. On this day...
Posted on 10/25/2021 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
A fragment of William Shakespeare’s first folio is headed to auction this week. But don’t think of it as insubstantial...
Posted on 10/22/2021 at 01:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
A real-life watch featured prominently in fiction is headed to auction next month. In the novel Ulysses, James Joyce describes...
Posted on 10/21/2021 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
We have a trailer and release date for a long-in-the-works documentary on author Kurt Vonnegut. Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time...
Posted on 10/19/2021 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Yesterday marked 170 years since Herman Melville’s best-known novel was published in England. Known there as The Whale and in...
Posted on 10/14/2021 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
On this day in 1892, the first collection of Sherlock Holmes stories was published. Arthur Conan Doyle had been releasing...
Posted on 10/12/2021 at 03:16 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
On this day almost sixty years ago, Sylvia Plath wrote her well-known poem “Daddy.” While it wasn’t published until after...
