Posted on 03/19/2019 at 12:00 PM by
Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Author Philip Roth would’ve turned eighty-six today, had he not passed away in 2018. In honor of the occasion, Emi...
Posted on 03/18/2019 at 03:00 PM by
Sadye Scott-Hainchek
We mentioned earlier that one of the U.S. poet laureates, W.S. Merwin, had recentlypassed away. Based on his obituary an...
Posted on 03/15/2019 at 04:00 PM by
Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Ready for some slightly different reading recommendations for St. Patrick’s Day? Book Marks offers up ten novels f...
Posted on 03/16/2019 at 04:00 PM by
Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Happy belated birthday to artist and illustrator Wanda Gág, whose 106th birthday was last Monday. Don’t kno...
Posted on 02/01/2019 at 12:00 PM by
Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Happy birthday — or launch day — to the Oxford English Dictionary! On this day in 1884, according to Literar...
Posted on 02/07/2019 at 04:00 PM by
Sadye Scott-Hainchek
For many of us, reading out loud or being read to simply recalls our early childhood days. But throughout history, it ha...
Posted on 01/20/2019 at 04:00 PM by
Sadye Scott-Hainchek
We can’t all, sadly, pack up and fly out to the world’s most beautiful bookstore. But this bookish tourism h...
Posted on 01/08/2019 at 02:00 PM by
Sadye Scott-Hainchek
There are some truly great suggestions of what writers would do if they had to choose a different career in this mo...
Posted on 01/07/2019 at 05:00 PM by
Sadye Scott-Hainchek
You know Zora Neale Hurston was an accomplished writer and anthropologist, but did you also know she dabbled in toy-maki...
Posted on 01/05/2019 at 08:00 AM by
Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Imagine hopping on a subway, expecting the normal boring ride, and finding yourself in the midst of a poetry reading. Th...
