Posted on November 17, 2023 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Another day, another literary award and year-end book list ... Congratulations are in order for author John Vaillant, who won...

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Posted on November 17, 2023 at 8:36 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A.S. Byatt, the celebrated author and literary critic, has died at the age of eighty-seven. Her publisher confirmed the death....

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Posted on November 15, 2023 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

You're not imagining this — Cambridge Dictionary has chosen "hallucinate" as its word of the year for 2023. But it's...

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Posted on November 14, 2023 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

There's no shortage of reading lists for those seeking to understand the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians right now....

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Posted on November 14, 2023 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The house in Haworth, England, where the Brontë sisters lived for many years draws about a million visitors a year....

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Posted on November 13, 2023 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We may have lost author John le Carré, but it turns out we haven't lost one of his beloved characters....

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Posted on November 9, 2023 at 12:39 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

As an email from our local library system noted, literary award season is upon us. And while we wait for...

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Posted on November 8, 2023 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A researcher may have found previously unknown, but published, work by author Louisa May Alcott. The Guardian reports that Max...

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Posted on October 31, 2023 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Neither of these updates from the publishing industry is probably surprising. In the case of KKR's official acquisition of Simon...

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Posted on October 31, 2023 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A judge has set a trial date for the man charged with assaulting author Salman Rushdie for January 8. And...

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