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This year marks the 75th birthday of Wonder Woman. She is a superhero from DC Comics who made her debut appearance in issue one of All Star Comics in 1941, and made her …
Dylan Siegel was a normal 6 year-old boy until one day he found out his best friend, Jonah, had a life threatening, rare, liver condition. Upon hearing about Jonah’s …
The way that we access and enjoy books has really not changed since the year 1440 when Gutenberg invented the printing press. Books are written by starving authors in …
The medieval art of bookmaking has been granted a new lease of life through one online store’s creation of handmade leather journals. These beautiful books are currently being sold …
YouTube Channel: The Young Turks From the Description: A bookstore in Denver is catching a lot of flack because it’s name is now associated with a terrorist group. ISIS Books & Gifts …
J.K. Rowling is no stranger to having her written work adapted for the screen. Her Harry Potter books spanned eight movies, her 2012 novel, The Casual Vacancy, was turned into …
Halloween is coming early this year at your local comic shop! Today, October 29, comic book lovers of all ages can pick up free Halloween and horror comics at …
It looks like Shakespeare In Love may not have been so historically inaccurate after all—it was confirmed this week by the Oxford University Press that Christopher Marlowe did in fact …
Madeleine Thien is about as impressive as an author can get. Several of her books including the short story collection, Simple Recipes, and her fictional novel Certainty, have won literary …
The Man Booker Prize, established in 1969, holds the distinction of awarding the finest English-language fiction novel of the year. Up until 2014, only authors from the Commonwealth, Ireland, …
Living to the age of 102 is an accomplishment all in its own. Frances Hardwick is an impressive woman, who has lived a very full life, and yet continues …
On Saturday, October 22, 2016, beloved comic artist Steve Dillon died in New York City. His brother, Glyn Dillon, sent his remembrance out on Twitter: “Sad to confirm the …
If you have been following #AmReading the past few weeks, you will see that we first had Truman Capote’s ashes being auctioned, then came one of Lewis Carroll’s notebooks containing …
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” ~ John Dewey The right of every child to a free public education is one of the cornerstones of …
Heads up, aspiring writers! The Kadas Prize Foundation has recently announced that they’ll be giving away a $100,000 prize to the writer who can best answer the question: “Are …
Nearly 100 years after it was originally written, its been recently announced by Harper Collins that they will be publishing the work Beren and Lúthien by J.R.R. Tolkien in 2017! The two …
Every city has them. Sometimes they are well known, and sometimes they are hidden through winding streets, or off the beaten path. Either way, they are much sought after …
Though an author’s notebooks may not be as wild as, let’s say, an author’s ashes when put up on the auction block, it is still a special treat for …
Hurricane Matthew has caused devastation and destruction for several countries globally. Here in the U.S., Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Virginia have experienced the loss of lives …
If you haven’t made Halloween plans yet, don’t worry: you may be able to spend it acting out one of the most famous horror novels of all time. Thanks …