News of note for readers: January 5, 2024

Posted on January 5, 2024 at 2:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Book Riot, Bookish anniversaries, Children's literature, History, Libraries, The Guardian, The New York Times

News of note for readers: December 21, 2023

Posted on December 21, 2023 at 2:37 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Book lists, Cover design, History, Libraries, Obituary, Poetry, Pop culture

News of note for readers: December 7, 2023

Posted on December 7, 2023 at 1:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Book club, Book lists, Classic literature, History, Obituary, Poetry

Book battles: Historic and contemporary

Posted on December 7, 2023 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Depending on which version of the saying you prefer, history either repeats itself or at least rhymes. I'm a big...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Bans and challenges, Book Riot, History, Literary Hub, Movie adaptation, Politics

American librarians were also fighting Nazis

Posted on December 7, 2023 at 8:04 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

One thing my father has noted about our favorite newspaper’s daily today-in-history feature is, you can just about guarantee something...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: History, Libraries

News of note for readers: October 23, 2023

Posted on October 24, 2023 at 10:16 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days! Erik Larson’s next book closely tracks the months...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Bans and challenges, History, Nonfiction, Obituary, Politics, Publishing, The Guardian

News of note for readers: October 20, 2023

Posted on October 20, 2023 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days! Author Eve Bunting, who tackled tough themes in...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Artificial intelligence (AI), Awards, Bans and challenges, History, Movie adaptation, Nonfiction, Obituary

AI uncovers the writing on scrolls that survived Vesuvius's eruption

Posted on October 18, 2023 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Artificial intelligence, like just about any other tool humans have invented, has its admirable uses along with its morally questionable...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Artificial intelligence (AI), History

BookRiot highlights: September 28, 2023

Posted on September 28, 2023 at 2:54 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Here are the highlights (or lowlights) of BookRiot in terms of literary news from the past few days ... Here...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Bans and challenges, Book Riot, History, Poetry

Old British nonfiction books of note

Posted on September 14, 2023 at 12:32 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Guardian had two chuckle-worthy articles on historic nonfiction books worth sharing. The more recent one is the Oxford English...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: History, Language, Nonfiction, The Guardian