Quote of the Week | Amanda Gorman
Amanda Gorman, 19, was named the first-ever Youth Poet Laureate of the United States on April 26, 2017. A community leader, activist, and author, the Harvard University sophomore is thoughtful, cadenced, and ambitious – and is looking forward to running for president...
Quote of the Week | Jane Austen
On this day in 1811, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility was published in three volumes by Thomas Egerton. The book's initial print run was 750 copies. It sold out within the year. Austen paid for the novel’s printing and advertising herself, in addition to paying the...
Quote of the Week | George Saunders
Picture a graveyard in the middle of night at the start of the Civil War. The year is 1862, the place is a Georgetown cemetery, and the man in the crypt is President Abraham Lincoln, cradling the body of his 11-year-old son, Willie, who has just died of typhoid fever....
Quote of the Week | Richard Wilbur, Poet Laureate
On October 14, Richard Wilbur, second Poet Laureate of the United States, passed away at the age of 96. Wilbur worked as a writer for more than 60 years and valued "traditional virtuosity over self-dramatization." He won his first Pulitzer for the collection Things of...
Quote of the Week | Edgar Allan Poe
October is marked by the conspicuous onslaught of Halloween. Stick-on scarecrows pose brokenly in shop windows. Ghostface masks pop-up in drug stores. Pumpkin spice lattes dilute the otherwise smoky smell of the city. In books, memoirs and biographies are set aside in...
Quote of the Week | Mohandas Gandhi
October 2nd marks The International Day of Non-Violence, a 24-hour period set aside by the United Nations to "disseminate the message of nonviolence" and work towards "a culture of peace, tolerance, understanding and nonviolence" throughout the world....