Author Jodi Picoult also helped create a COVID musical

Posted on 05/11/2021 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Yesterday we shared news of author Jodi Picoult’s upcoming COVID-era novel, Wish You Were Here. As it turns out, Picoult...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Pop culture, The New York Times

Jodi Picoult has written a COVID-19 novel

Posted on 05/10/2021 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The pandemic may be nearing its end, but we’re only just beginning the associated book rush. Bestselling author Jodi Picoult...

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Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Excerpt, Literary Hub, Nonfiction, Romance

Michael Lewis's book on the COVID-19 disaster is out

Posted on 05/04/2021 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The book that none of our Facebook followers asked for has officially hit the shelves. The Premonition: A Pandemic Story,...

Categories: Author Interview

Tagged As: Author interview, coronavirus / COVID-19, Nonfiction, NPR, The New York Times

Writers are drumming up donations for India COVID relief

Posted on 05/03/2021 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Writers from around the world have teamed up to solicit help for India’s fight against a massive COVID surge. Literary...

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Tagged As: Charity, coronavirus / COVID-19, Literary Hub

An author reflects on her novel that accidentally previewed COVID

Posted on 04/30/2021 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

When author Christina Sweeney-Baird began working with an editor on her novel The End of Men, it should’ve been a...

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Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, The Guardian, Thriller

Look inside Boehner’s book, Cuomo’s book deal

Posted on 04/02/2021 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

There’s nothing tame about today’s political-book news. John Boehner, who capped his time as a US representative for Ohio with...

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Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Excerpt, Literary Hub, Memoir, Politics, Scandal

Prince Harry writes the foreword to a book about grief

Posted on 03/23/2021 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Prince Harry just keeps opening up to the public. A new book about a child who loses their mother to...

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Tagged As: Children's literature, coronavirus / COVID-19, Pop culture

Atwood, Grisham and other authors are co-writing a pandemic novel

Posted on 03/19/2021 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Many of our Facebook fans, at least, have expressed little to no interest in a nonfiction book about the COVID-19...

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Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19

Read an excerpt from "Many Different Kinds of Love"

Posted on 03/15/2021 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Writer Michael Rosen is among the many who were unfortunate enough to contract COVID-19 — yet among those who were...

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Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Excerpt, The Guardian

We're getting new work from Art Spiegelman thanks to Zoom

Posted on 03/10/2021 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A new collaboration between comic artist Art Spiegelman and short story writer Robert Coover promises to showcase the power of...

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Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Graphic novel, Literary Hub