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Friends of the Santa Rosa Libraries A non-profit organization that raises funds through book sales for the Santa Rosa branches of the SCPL

T.S. Eliot founds The Criterion magazine, which contains the first publication of his very good poem The Waste Land (Oct...
10/15/2026

T.S. Eliot founds The Criterion magazine, which contains the first publication of his very good poem The Waste Land (October 15, 1922).

Color of the Year (Benjamin Moore) is Webster Green (HC-130). It “balances the stability of blue and the warmth of yello...
10/15/2026

Color of the Year (Benjamin Moore) is Webster Green (HC-130). It “balances the stability of blue and the warmth of yellow, adding a splash of color while still maintaining composure.”
Pantone (& others) to follow?

Did you know that Ten Fourteen is a multi-floor cocktail bar, steakhouse, and late-night venue located in the heart of H...
10/14/2026

Did you know that Ten Fourteen is a multi-floor cocktail bar, steakhouse, and late-night venue located in the heart of Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.
Did you know that Yorkshire is the setting for, possibly, probably (though maybe not specifically or even periphally in the Ten Fourteen) a hundred or more novels?

It was a busy day (historically) in the realm of literature. Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? premiered i...
10/13/2026

It was a busy day (historically) in the realm of literature. Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? premiered in New York City (October 13, 1962). Annie Proulx’s “Brokeback Mountain” was published in The New Yorker (October 13, 1997). The End by Lemony Snicket: The thirteenth and final novel in the children's series A Series of Unfortunate Events was published (October 13, 2006). Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature (October 13, 2016).

S.Res.449 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)A resolution designating the week beginning on October 12, 2025, as "National Wild...
10/12/2026

S.Res.449 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
A resolution designating the week beginning on October 12, 2025, as "National Wildlife Refuge Week".
Sponsor: C***s, Christopher A. [Sen.-D-DE] (Introduced 10/09/2025) Cosponsors: (14)
Committees: Senate - Judiciary
Latest Action: Senate - 10/15/2025 Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7141
H.Res.820 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)

Have the 50-year-old prizewinners in American literature held up better than the 75-year-old ones. The Pulitzer Prize bo...
10/12/2026

Have the 50-year-old prizewinners in American literature held up better than the 75-year-old ones. The Pulitzer Prize board did not guve an award for fiction that year, instead giving "A special award to Alex Haley for Roots, the story of a black family from its origins in Africa through seven generations to the present day in America."

The 15th Governor General's Awardsfor Literary Merit were presented on June 13, 1952 for works of Canadian literature pu...
10/11/2026

The 15th Governor General's Awardsfor Literary Merit were presented on June 13, 1952 for works of Canadian literature published in 1951. The awards in this period had no monetary prize and were just an honour for the authors.
Seventy-five years and a few months later.

Established in 1950, the National Book Awards are American literary prizes administered by the National Book Foundation,...
10/10/2026

Established in 1950, the National Book Awards are American literary prizes administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. A pantheon of writers such as William Faulkner, Marianne Moore, Ralph Ellison, John Cheever, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Robert Lowell, Walker Percy, John Updike, Katherine Anne Porter, Norman Mailer, Lillian Hellman, Elizabeth Bishop, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison, Flannery O’Connor, Adrienne Rich, Thomas Pynchon, Alice Walker, E. Annie Proulx, Jesmyn Ward, and Ta-Nehisi Coates have all won National Book Awards. Although other categories have been recognized in the past, the Awards currently honor the best Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s.

Compare and contrast the National Book Award winners for books published in 1950, the first year of those awards, with the 1951 Pulitzer Prizes for books published in 1950.

More on awards seasons here tomorrow.

Press Release�8 October 2026The Nobel Prize in Literature 2026Anne CarsonThe Nobel Prize in Literature for 2026 is award...
10/08/2026

Press Release�8 October 2026
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2026
Anne Carson
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2026 is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson,
“for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature”.

“Marathon Man,” the movie based on William Goldman’s novel of the same title, was released in this date in 1976.
10/08/2026

“Marathon Man,” the movie based on William Goldman’s novel of the same title, was released in this date in 1976.

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