Layman Poupard

03/08/2022

A Washington Post piece on activist Theresa Malkiel, who organized the first International Women's Day in 1909. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/03/08/international-womens-day-theresa-malkiel/

Theresa Malkiel fled persecution of Jews in Russia and ended up in a New York City sweatshop, where she joined and shaped a movement that led to International Women’s Day.

01/05/2022

Books from 1926, including works by Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, and Dorothy Parker, have entered the public domain. http://ow.ly/NSqv50HnYbb

Tweet       By Jennifer Jenkins, Director of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain January 1, 2022, is Public Domain Day: Works from 1926 are open to all, as is a cornucopia of recorded music: an estimated 400,000 sound recordings from before 1923! On January 1, 2022, copyrigh...

12/23/2021

The office of Layman Poupard and Bruccoli Clark Layman will be closed for the holidays starting Friday, December 24, and will reopen Monday morning, January 3. Happy Holidays!

12/23/2021

Joan Didion, journalist and author of "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," has died at age 87. http://ow.ly/ux8C50HitH7

When Didion started writing in 1960s, she put a certain kind of voice on the page — neurotic, female — that hadn't been there before.

12/15/2021

Influential Black feminist author
and academic bell hooks has died today. http://ow.ly/9qbb50HbBMb

She wrote more than 30 books, drawing on history, politics and her own life while examining race, class and gender in America.

12/03/2021

"Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end." -- Joseph Conrad, novelist (3 Dec 1857-1924)

11/24/2021

The offices of Layman Poupard and Bruccoli Clark Layman will be closed for Thanksgiving and Black Friday. We will reopen for business the following Monday at 9 a.m. Have a great holiday!

11/23/2021

Robert Bly, author of the New York Times bestseller "Iron John: A Book About Men," men's movement advocate, and co-founder of American Writers Against the Vietnam War, died this Sunday. https://www.npr.org/2021/11/22/508600340/poet-robert-bly-anti-war-activist-and-men-s-movement-leader-dies-at-xx

Bly won a National Book Award and was a tireless advocate for poetry. But he knew he could rub people the wrong way. "I do remember people wanting to kill me," he said, "but that's not unusual."

11/23/2021

http://ow.ly/ZT1l50GUoQg

“Jules Verne wrote a novel in 1863 which predicted gas-powered cars, fax machines, wind power, missiles, electric street lighting, maglev trains, the record industry, the internet, and feminism. It was lost for 131 years & just published in 1994 https://t.co/l5lbc175l2”

10/14/2021

"The most, MOST important thing is to read. Read all the time; read when they tell you not to read, what they tell you not to read. READ LIKE A WOLF EATS. Read." — Gary Paulsen 91939-2021) http://ow.ly/FOWL50GrDKQ

Gary Paulsen — whose wilderness adventure Hatchet taught generations of kids to survive in the forest — worked as a farmhand, truck driver and satellite technician before turning to writing.

10/07/2021

Abdulrazak Gurnah, 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature recipient, is the first Black African to win the award in 35 year. #2021 http://ow.ly/bC7v50GnITo

Zanzibari novelist becomes first black African writer in 35 years to win prestigious award

10/05/2021

Facsimile of The Grapes of Wrath to be released by SP Books October 7. This is the first time Steinbeck's handwritten manuscript has ever been published in its original form. http://ow.ly/B2Sh50GmdhF

This early version of John Steinbeck’s most famous novel, written in less than 100 days, will be released by SP Books on 7 October

08/23/2021

Blast from the past: Drs. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Richard Layman at the Thomas Cooper Library.

https://localhistory.richlandlibrary.com/digital/collection/p16817coll21/id/7431/

07/02/2021

The office will be closed Monday, July 5 in observance of Independence Day. We will reopen 9 a.m. Tuesday morning. Have a great holiday weekend!

06/18/2021

Juneteenth, now a national holiday, is tomorrow. Poet Clint Smith, for the Paris Review, recounts celebrating the 40th anniversary of Al Edwards Sr.’s Juneteenth prayer breakfast in Galveston.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/06/18/celebrating-juneteenth-in-galveston/

In his new book, How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith travels to Galveston, Texas, to observe the annual Juneteenth reenactment.

06/16/2021

Happy Bloomsday! Senior Editor Hollis Beach details the origin of this annual literary celebration, the love of James Joyce's life, and Joyce's groundbreaking book Ulysses: https://laymanpoupard.com/bloomsday/

Yes. With pint in hand, potato in pocket, and the “fine tang” lingering on the palate from the breakfast kidney, we celebrate that most epic literary holiday: Bloomsday. It commemorates 16 June 1904, the day on which James Joyce set the action of his masterwork Ulysses (1922)—well, most of it,...

05/27/2021

Layman Poupard and Bruccoli Clark Layman will be closed Monday, May 31 in observance of Memorial Day. We will reopen Tuesday morning.

05/27/2021

Eric Carle, author of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and "The Grouchy Ladybug," has died.

http://ow.ly/yzVd50EWjrz

The beloved author and illustrator drew more than 70 books for kids — often about friendly bugs like that famous caterpillar. He said he got his inspiration from nature walks with his father.

03/25/2021

Peter S. Beagle regains the rights for his work, The Last Unicorn, after a legal battle alleging fraud and elder abuse.

http://ow.ly/jepw50E8rJT

Fantasy author Peter S. Beagle has regained the rights to his creative property, including adaptations of his classic novel and film The Last Unicorn.