Posted on 09/28/2022 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
On this day in 1891, author Herman Melville died. He was seventy-two years old but hadn't published a book in...
Posted on 09/24/2022 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Happy birthday to F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of the commonly read The Great Gatsby and the perhaps less frequently read...
Posted on 09/22/2022 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
When Ernest Hemingway died, his widow went to Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West, Florida, and retrieved some of the...
Posted on 09/18/2022 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The New York Times has released its Great Adaptations quiz for September. The monthly challenge tests your knowledge of classic...
Posted on 09/16/2022 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Happy birthday to H.A. Rey, born on this day in 1898! Most of us know him best as the co-author...
Posted on 09/13/2022 at 07:40 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
A signed first-edition copy of The Catcher in the Rye is going on sale this week. NPR reports that while...
Posted on 09/07/2022 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Happy belated seventy-fifth birthday to the classic storybook Goodnight Moon! The collaboration between writer Margaret Wise Brown and illustrator Clement...
Posted on 09/04/2022 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Last month, Literary Hub became aware that the manor in a Pride and Prejudice movie had hit the market. Luckington...
Posted on 08/30/2022 at 07:47 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Eleven unpublished letters from Charles Dickens are going on display for the first time tomorrow. The Guardian reports that the...
Posted on 08/25/2022 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
When you think of ghost stories, you probably don't think of Virginia Woolf. That is, unless you've read the collection...
