T.S. Eliot estate sends a large donation to the Brontë Parsonage Museum

Posted on 09/08/2020 at 01:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Brontë Parsonage Museum launched a crowdfunding campaign in July in hopes of closing a forecasted year-end deficit of £100,000...

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Tagged As: Charity, Classic literature, coronavirus / COVID-19, Literary tourism, Poetry, The Guardian

The Washington Post's analysis of COVID-19 reading trends

Posted on 09/03/2020 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

If ever there were a definitive answer to the question “what have we been reading since the pandemic started?”, the...

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Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Reading

Where to donate (or sell) your books during COVID-19

Posted on 08/31/2020 at 09:09 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A Facebook commenter asked on one of our posts how one could clear out their old books, with so many...

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Tagged As: BookRiot, Charity, coronavirus / COVID-19

Coming this fall: "Good Morning Zoom"

Posted on 08/04/2020 at 10:27 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Here’s a guaranteed bestseller: a banking executive and mother of two has written a COVID-themed parody of Goodnight Moon. Good...

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

Publishing insiders predict this fall's reading trends

Posted on 08/01/2020 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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We’ve already taken a look at what captured readers’ attention during the first few months of the COVID pandemic and...

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Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Publishing, Reading

NY bookstores are adding reading material to children's lunchboxes

Posted on 07/30/2020 at 04:21 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit all of us in some way, and has been particularly brutal on certain segments of...

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Tagged As: Bookstore, coronavirus / COVID-19, Reading

When epidemics and erotica collide

Posted on 07/30/2020 at 02:34 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The BBC recently highlighted three 2020 releases — all of which we’ve featured on our newswire, at various points —...

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

Internet Archive founder: We're not pirates or thieves

Posted on 07/30/2020 at 11:46 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The founder of the Internet Archive, which launched and then pulled down what it called the National Emergency Library, has...

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Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Lawsuit, Publishing

Grants are available from the Literary Arts Emergency Fund

Posted on 07/17/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Three nonprofits have banded together to offer new financial relief to struggling literary organizations hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The...

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Tagged As: Charity, coronavirus / COVID-19

National Book Week goes virtual (and longer)

Posted on 07/13/2020 at 10:36 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The National Book Foundation announced Friday that the events of National Book Week will go virtual this year. And rather...

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Tagged As: Awards, coronavirus / COVID-19