News can travel slowly around the holidays, so we wanted to belatedly share that beloved novelist Elizabeth Spencer passed away shortly before Christmas. She was 98. A 2002 inductee of the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame, Ms. Spencer’s most famous work was the novella The Light in the Piazza, a finalist for the National […]
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Exploring the American Writers Museum
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Last weekend, I had the chance to visit the new American Writers Museum in Chicago, Illinois. I’d been looking forward to checking it out, having followed its initial fundraising efforts several years ago through its opening in the summer of 2017. The result is an interactive full-immersion museum experience for book lovers. You know how […]
Find Your Next Summer Read
Thursday, July 6, 2017
Summertime means vacation time. If you’re anything like us, your first thought, when planning for a trip, is “What am I going to bring with me to read?” Lucky for us, The Expert Editor, an Australian professional editing and proofreading company, has developed “The Ultimate Flowchart for Finding Your Next Book.” This infographic is loaded […]