You’re cordially invited to online readings

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

Let’s hear it one more time for the wonderful artists who are regrouping and rallying to bring us in-home entertainment...

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Tagged As: Charity, coronavirus / COVID-19, Poetry, The New York Times

Margaret Atwood launches video series to support authors

Posted on 04/06/2020 at 10:16 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Margaret Atwood, famous for (among many things) her dystopian fiction, has entered the fight to support authors during the coronavirus...

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Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, The New York Times, Women in literature

NY Times: Read these books after finishing "Tiger King"

Posted on 04/03/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

If our personal Facebook feed is any indication, the Netflix docuseries Tiger King is the go-to quarantine activity right now....

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Tagged As: Book lists, Pop culture, The New York Times

New York Times bestsellers: Week of April 11, 2020

Posted on 04/03/2020 at 07:46 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The New York Times’s bestseller list for combined print and ebook fiction is out for the week of April 11,...

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Tagged As: Bestsellers, Book lists, The New York Times

New York Times bestsellers: Week of April 4, 2020

Posted on 03/27/2020 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The New York Times’s bestseller list for combined print and ebook fiction is out for the week of April 4,...

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Tagged As: Bestsellers, Book lists, The New York Times

New York Times bestsellers: Week of March 28, 2020

Posted on 03/20/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The New York Times’s bestseller list for combined print and ebook fiction is out for the week of March 28,...

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Tagged As: Bestsellers, Book lists, The New York Times

Sellers: Amazon waffles on offering "Mein Kampf," other controversial books

Posted on 03/18/2020 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Booksellers who had offered Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler on Amazon saw the retail giant pull the title, reports the...

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Tagged As: Amazon, The New York Times

New York Times bestsellers: Week of March 21, 2020

Posted on 03/13/2020 at 09:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The New York Times’s bestseller list for combined print and ebook fiction is out for the week of March 21,...

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Tagged As: Bestsellers, Book lists, The New York Times

Mystery author Barbara Neely dies at age 78

Posted on 03/11/2020 at 02:41 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Barbara Neely, who became a pioneering and award-winning author later in life, died last week at the age of seventy-eight....

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Tagged As: Mystery, Obituary, The New York Times, Women in literature

Read an excerpt from "My Dark Vanessa"

Posted on 03/10/2020 at 02:26 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Kate Elizabeth Russell’s much-anticipated and -discussed debut novel, My Dark Vanessa, came out today. Those curious about the book and/or...

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Tagged As: Excerpt, The New York Times