September 11, 2013
Reports of a new Harry Potter title in the works turn out to be untrue, based on a joke circulated for April Fool’s Day. I seem to recall JK Rowling speaking about how she felt the 7th and last book of the series was definitely “the end.” The rumor mill was spreading the misinformation that […]
September 11, 2013
A copy of the Bay Psalm Book, published in 1640 in Cambridge, MA is on display today at the Newberry Library as one stop of a grand book tour sponsored by Sotheby’s. It is one of eleven surviving copies of the oldest book printed in North America. It’s real title is “The Whole Booke of […]
September 10, 2013
Finalists for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, Britain’s most prestigious literary award were announced this morning. Open to writers from Britain, Ireland or one of the Commonwealth nations, the prize has been criticized in the past as “either too popular or not readable enough.” This year’s shortlist includes the following six finalists: We need New […]
September 8, 2013
We are thrilled to introduce painter and printmaker Sarah Hahne as the next featured artist in our ongoing exhibition series Local Art @ EPL. Throughout September, her exceptional collection A New Practice will be on display on the 2nd floor of EPL’s Main Library. Based on her “personal geometry” of flat pattern and texture, Hahne […]
September 6, 2013
Agatha Christie’s estate and HarperCollins plan to publish a new Hercule Poirot mystery next fall. British author Sophie Hannah has been commissioned to write the new Poirot 93 years after he was first introduced in The Mysterious Affair at Styles. The Belgian sleuth was killed off in the final Poirot novel Curtain published shortly before […]
September 3, 2013
The winners of this year’s Hugo Awards for science fiction were announced Sunday, September 1st in San Antonio, Texas. The winner for the Best Novel went to Red Shirts: A Novel with Three Codas, by John Scalzi. Other awards went to: The Emperor’s Soul, by Brandon Sanderson, The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi (from […]
August 30, 2013
Celebrated and prolific poet Seamus Heaney died in Dublin today after a brief illness. Winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, he was described by Robert Lowell as the “most important Irish poet since Yeats.” In 2008, on NPR’s program All Things Considered Mr. Heaney said: “I have always thought of poems as stepping […]
August 29, 2013
If you ignore the title “Warning: Do Not Open this Book!” by Adam Lehrhaupt you will definitely have an adventure. The reviewer compares it to Press Here, an imaginative book for young children that seems to bring change with every page. (see review on EPL website) When children do turn the page, they are met with “Why […]
August 29, 2013
This month for Poetry 365 we’re highlighting the fantastic fifth book from celebrated poet Maurice Manning. In The Gone and the Going Away, the Pulitzer Prize finalist mines his own rural Kentucky roots while creating the folks of Fog Town Holler – a mythical, bygone land that “celebrates and echoes the voices and lives of […]
August 27, 2013
This article in the Chicago Tribune reviews “Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives,” a collection of early women suspense authors. Many of the stories weave themes of psychological complexity and use the home as a springboard for a variety of crime stories. The editor, Sarah Weinman, has applied the term “domestic fiction” to these stories to distinguish them […]
