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The J. Paul Getty Museum will open its Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages…
The ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography sponsored by the International League of Antiquarian…
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Dallas — "The correct pronunciation is therefore Tolkeen, with the accent on the 'o' (as in doll). Yours sincerely, J. R. R. Tolkien."
Washington, D.C. — The 2022 Library of Congress National Book Festival returns to the Washington Convention Center this Labor Day weekend on Saturday, Sept. 3, featuring more than 120 authors, poets and writers, and celebrating the festival theme, “Books Bring Us Together.”
Agatha Christie fans have long puzzled over the existence of a real-life inspiration for Hercule Poirot. Did the author base Poirot on someone she knew? Or was he an entirely fictional invention?
A genealogist in Torquay believes he may have found the real deal: Jacques Hornais, a retired Belgian…
My collecting began with Civil War artifacts when I was a teenager. My mother, an elementary school teacher, had a keen eye for antiques and our home had several pieces of Shaker furniture. My father, a history teacher at a New Hampshire boarding school, New Hampton, subscribed to American…
London – Christie’s announces results from First Editions, Second Thoughts: An Auction in support of English PEN. Taking place for only the second time in the U.K. this online literary auction (28 June – 12 July) comprised First Edition books and works of art from internationally renowned…
A new national archive has been launched in Manchester, preserving literary texts, artifacts, and ephemera from popular culture and the counterculture in the UK from the postwar period to the present day.
The British Pop Archive is celebrating its unveiling at the John Rylands Research…
The Hotel Monteleone is celebrating its 125th anniversary and since 1999 has owned the title of Literary Landmark awarded by the American Library Association, a distinction shared with only three hotels in the country. The Monteleone has long been a favorite haunt of distinguished southern authors…
Washington, D.C. — Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden today announced the appointment of Ada Limón as the nation’s 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2022-2023. Limón will take up her duties in the fall, opening the Library’s annual literary season on Sept. 29 with a reading of her work in…
The contemporary world brings many new things: an undeniably brisk pace, an unclear future, and an ever-changing face of motherhood. Working vs. stay-at-home mothers elicit philosophical mommy wars, along with a side of mommy guilt. We are called to nurture, rear and cultivate, as well to…
Even if you aren’t an Ernest Hemingway fan, it would be remiss for a bibliophile to skip the Hemingway Home & Museum when visiting Key West, Florida.
