Actor Alan Rickman's journals will be published in 2022

Posted on 11/23/2020 at 07:54 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Signs continue to point to 2022 being well worth looking forward to. That’s when the journals of late actor Alan...

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Tagged As: Memoir, Pop culture, The Guardian

Pioneering writer Jan Morris has died

Posted on 11/20/2020 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Jan Morris, who broke both huge news stories and silence about being transgendered in her writing, has died. She died...

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Tagged As: Obituary, The Guardian

Book battles: Star Wars novels and political memoir

Posted on 11/20/2020 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A writer who adapted two Star Wars movie scripts into novels is suing Disney over royalties (or the lack thereof)....

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Tagged As: Lawsuit, Memoir, Pop culture, Scandal, The Guardian, The New York Times

"Shuggie Bain" wins the 2020 Booker Prize

Posted on 11/19/2020 at 03:19 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Douglas Stuart has won the 2020 Booker Prize for his debut novel, Shuggie Bain. Stuart wrote the semiautobiographical novel as...

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Tagged As: Awards, The Guardian

Obituaries: George Cockcroft and Jill Paton Walsh

Posted on 11/19/2020 at 11:29 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The literary world has recorded two new deaths. George Cockcroft, who wrote the cult classic The Dice Man under the...

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Tagged As: Obituary, The Guardian, The New York Times

J.R.R. Tolkien's essays about Middle-earth will come out in June

Posted on 11/19/2020 at 09:30 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Never-before-published essays by J.R.R. Tolkien will be released next summer. The Nature of Middle-earth, authorized by the writer’s estate, reveals...

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Tagged As: Classic literature, Fantasy, The Guardian

Get ready for tomorrow's Booker Prize announcement

Posted on 11/18/2020 at 08:17 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The 2020 Booker Prize — delayed not by a pandemic but by a presidential memoir — will be awarded tomorrow....

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Tagged As: Awards, The Guardian

Harlan Ellison's long-delayed sci-fi anthology might be published

Posted on 11/17/2020 at 09:26 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Almost fifty years after it was first announced, Harlan Ellison’s sci-fi anthology may finally be published. The Guardian reports that...

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Tagged As: Science fiction, The Guardian

Donations pour in for proposed Virginia Woolf statue

Posted on 11/13/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

London's new statue honoring Mary Wollstonecraft — a pioneering feminist who’s also famous for being the mother of Mary Shelley...

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Tagged As: Literary tourism, The Guardian, Women in literature

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