Screen updates: “American Gods,” “Shuggie Bain,” and a Biden book

Posted on 12/04/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

So many updates from the world of book adaptations! In the order of firmest to haziest, we have: Starz has...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Fantasy, Movie adaptation, Nonfiction, Politics, TV adaptation

Author Q&A: Don Kennedy

Posted on 12/04/2020 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Today we’re interviewing Don Kennedy, who writes humor and children’s nonfiction. Kennedy is a Makaha Valley, Oahu, Hawaii, resident, who...

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Tagged As: Author interview, Nonfiction

"Wintering" author on the lessons we can learn from the cold season

Posted on 12/03/2020 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Winter doesn’t seem to be most people’s favorite season, and the COVID-19 pandemic probably isn’t improving their outlook on it....

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Tagged As: Author interview, Nonfiction, NPR

Beatles biography wins the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize

Posted on 11/24/2020 at 02:16 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The judges loved this book, yeah, yeah, yeah. One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time has won this year's...

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Tagged As: Awards, Nonfiction, The Guardian

Ta-Nehisi Coates on what "Between the World and Me" means in 2020

Posted on 11/24/2020 at 11:55 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Between the World and Me began as a letter from writer Ta-Nehisi Coates to his son. Now it’s a National...

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Pope Francis wrote a book during his COVID-19 lockdown

Posted on 11/24/2020 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We now know what Pope Francis’s pandemic project was: writing a book. Let Us Dream was ghostwritten by Austen Ivereigh...

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Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Nonfiction

Barack Obama will speak at this year's Booker Prize ceremony

Posted on 11/12/2020 at 01:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Barack Obama will be joining this year’s virtual Booker Prize ceremony. The former president, whose memoir’s release date prompted the...

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Tagged As: Awards, Book reviews, Memoir, Nonfiction, NPR, Politics, The Guardian

Nonfiction writer: Let's keep our language simple

Posted on 11/08/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Another installment in our series of forget-high-school-English-class posts comes courtesy of Joseph C. Kunz. Kunz recommends that his fellow nonfiction...

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Tagged As: Language, Nonfiction

"The Things They Carried" to become a star-studded feature film

Posted on 11/04/2020 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Film and literary buffs alike seem impressed with the early plans for a new book adaptation. Tim O’Brien’s The Things...

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Stressed? Ina Garten is ready with "Modern Comfort Food"

Posted on 11/04/2020 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

There are a number of reasons — regularly planned as well as unforeseen — that right now is comfort food...

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