How an unknown narrator landed the Harry Potter audiobook deal

Posted on 01/23/2020 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Just as Harry Potter launched J.K. Rowling’s career, so too did it launch Jim Dale’s. Dale, who went on to...

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Tagged As: Audiobook, Literary Hub, Podcast

Literary adaptations for TV and film to expect in 2020

Posted on 01/16/2020 at 01:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Ready to complain about why Hollywood needs to mess with books (or, alternately, why Hollywood needs to adapt a book...

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Tagged As: Literary Hub, Movie adaptation, Pop culture, TV adaptation

Find out why there's such fuss over "Topics of Conversation"

Posted on 01/08/2020 at 09:13 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Have you been seeing Topics of Conversation all over your literary newsfeed and wondered what the fuss was about? Well,...

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Tagged As: Book reviews, Excerpt, Literary Hub, NPR, Women in literature

Auschwitz Memorial Museum reminds John Boyne he's not perfect, either

Posted on 01/06/2020 at 02:27 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Auschwitz Memorial Museum is back in the literary news, this time correcting author John Boyne. Literary Hub shared, via...

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Tagged As: Historical fiction, Literary Hub, Scandal

The similarities between J.R.R. Tolkien and Ian McKellen

Posted on 01/03/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Happy birthday, J.R.R. Tolkien! The author famous for the Lord of the Rings trilogy was born on this day in...

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Tagged As: Classic literature, Fantasy, Just for fun, Literary Hub, Movie adaptation

The past decade in books, two ways

Posted on 12/30/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We’ve delivered the past-decade retrospective to authors; now it’s time for readers to think back on all the changes they’ve...

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Parties you can only pretend to have attended

Posted on 12/27/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Prefer to party vicariously rather than exhaust your mental and physical energy? Great news — we have a roundup of...

Tagged As: Just for fun, Literary Hub, The Guardian

On revising "The Joy of Cooking" for the 21st century

Posted on 12/13/2019 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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The first year we lived on our own, one of our Christmas gifts was a copy of The Joy of...

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Stephen King’s "The Dark Half" will become a movie ... again

Posted on 12/12/2019 at 01:09 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We have news of a new literary adaptation and an update on an already planned one. Alex Ross Perry will...

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Tagged As: Horror, Literary Hub, Movie adaptation, Pop culture

Happy birthday, Grace Paley!

Posted on 12/11/2019 at 09:55 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The writer and activist Grace Paley was born on this day in 1922. We’ll admit it — we weren’t terribly...

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Tagged As: History, Literary Hub, Women in literature