Mother’s Day is almost here, so what better way to show the mothers in your life how much you appreciate their selflessness, love, and care than with adorable book-themed gifts and a must-read novel? Here are some easy, breezy gift ideas for the mothers of the world: 1. Book-Scented Candles $18 Hearth & Hammer via Hearth & Hammer Ever wondered what your favorite stories smell like? Well, now you don’t have to! Hearth & Hammer offers a variety of scented candles based on famous pieces of literature, including The Green Light (a mix of ocean air, musk, and vanilla that encapsulates Gatsby’s infamous harbor), Walden Woods (a mix of fir, pine, …
The Brooklyn Home of Center for Creative Fiction is America’s first and only non-profit literary organization and, come January 2019, will be opening it’s doors in the heart of Brooklyn, New York. The Center was originally established as The Mercantile Library (a lending library for merchant clerks) in Manhattan back in 1820. It was renamed The Center for Creative Fiction in 2008, shortly before the building was sold and The Center moved to a different building in the center of Manhattan. Up until now, it hasn’t exactly been easily accessible for members of the Brooklyn community. via The Center for Fiction “Brooklyn is …
Everyone knows Lou Reed as the lead singer/songwriter of The Velvet Underground but, for a brief stint of time in the 1970s, Reed had quit music for good and vowed to never return. Instead, he stated, he would now only work as a poet. Music was his past, poetry was his future. Now, although Reed’s stint as a poet was brief, (after just six months of writing in near seclusion he began production on his solo album) the world of writing was no new turf. He had spent the early years of his youth working and studying alongside writers while in undergrad at …
As season eight of Game of Thrones is still buried deep within filming and production, HBO’s programming President, Casey Bloy, has hinted that these episodes may be a biiiit longer than seasons passed… Bloy says: We haven’t had that discussion yet because I don’t know how long the episodes are going to be. Two hours per episode seems like it would be excessive, but, it’s a great show, so who knows? As the show has gone on, each season has seemed to contain episodes with slightly longer runtimes than the ones before, at the expense of fewer episodes (the first …
A study of over two million books done by Queens College-CUNY recently found that books written by female authors were generally priced 45% lower than books written by male authors. The study found that book prices tend to de-escalate as genres became more female (books that are typically considered more ‘female’ tend to either fall into the ‘romance’ category or tend to be female-driven stories primarily involving women. I wish I was making this up.). Statistically, female authors do tend to dominate the romance field while male authors dominate the science field. So, discounting these genres and just looking at the books by male and female authors in the same …
