Barbara Newhall Follett: From literary darling to long-missing person

Posted on 03/04/2021 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Today is author Barbara Newhall Follett’s birthday, but it isn’t the most significant day in her life — or most...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: History, Literary Hub, Women in literature

Pair your favorite Haruki Murakami novel with a shirt he designed

Posted on 03/02/2021 at 11:45 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It isn’t just actors and musicians who stretch out of the creative outlet that first made them famous — writers...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Just for fun, Literary Hub

Wanted: a new Dutch translator for Amanda Gorman

Posted on 03/01/2021 at 03:07 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

International Booker Prize winner Marieke Lucas Rijneveld won’t add translator to their resume (yet) after all. Rijneveld announced in a...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Diversity, Literary Hub, Literature in translation, Poetry

Literary Hub's favorite author on-screen appearances

Posted on 02/28/2021 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Tired of the endless screen adaptations of literature? Here’s a new twist on it that seems safer for readers who...

Tagged As: Just for fun, Literary Hub

Save the date for the TV premiere of "The Underground Railroad"

Posted on 02/26/2021 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

There is finally a premiere date for the limited-series adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad. Literary Hub reports that...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Historical fiction, Literary Hub, TV adaptation

About Tennessee Williams’s first published piece

Posted on 02/25/2021 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

On this day in 1983, acclaimed playwright Tennessee Williams passed away. In honor of the event, Literary Hub took a...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: History, Literary Hub

The movie version of "Cherry" underwhelms author Nico Walker

Posted on 02/25/2021 at 08:17 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Last night, during a virtual author event, we heard a writer praise the work filmmakers had done to adapt his...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Literary Hub, Movie adaptation

A rare set of early paperbacks is up for sale

Posted on 02/24/2021 at 03:48 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Penguin Books (accurately) receives credit for popularizing the idea of the paperback book. But it certainly wasn’t the first publisher...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Literary Hub, Memorabilia

Library employee is fired over a book-burning video

Posted on 02/19/2021 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Here’s a table-turning story of library books being destroyed: this time, it was a staffer, not a patron, who did...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Libraries, Literary Hub, Scandal

Anne de Bourgh is the latest Austen character to get her own novel

Posted on 02/19/2021 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Authors are just like us — fascinated by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and all the characters, minor and major,...

Categories: Author Interview

Tagged As: Author interview, Classic literature, Literary Hub