by admin | Jun 16, 2019 | Quote of the Week
If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word. Margaret Atwood is the poet and novelist behind the Handmaid’s Tale. She is well known for her feminist literary works, poetry collections, short stories, and literary criticism. She has received dozens of...
by admin | May 16, 2019 | Quote of the Week
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. Mary Shelly, author of Frankenstein, is credited by many as the creator of the Sci-fi genre. Shelley grew up and formed a life surrounded by literary influences,...
by Rachael Kelly | Apr 16, 2018 | Quote of the Week
“I spy with my little eye something that is…” Jean Marzollo, best-known for the bestselling children’s series I Spy, passed away on Tuesday, April 10 at the age of 75. Over the course of her life, she wrote more than 150 books – “some...
by Rachael Kelly | Apr 9, 2018 | Quote of the Week
In February, Shakespearean purists sat a little straighter in their chairs. Independent researcher Dennis McCarthy and English scholar June Schlueter had just announced what Michael Witmore, the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, called a...
by Rachael Kelly | Apr 2, 2018 | Quote of the Week
Chances are you’ve never heard of this author or the South Australian town he comes from. The Paris Review called the man “one of the most original and brilliant writers at work today,” and The New Yorker called his third novel, The Plains, written...
by Rachael Kelly | Mar 26, 2018 | Quote of the Week
The literary world’s been buzzing over Tara Westover’s brutally-honest, family-oriented memoir, Educated, since it was published by Random House at the end of February. Westover wrote the book after completing her Ph.D. at Cambridge – an unlikely...
