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Crowdfunding Campaign To Turn JRR Tolkien’s Home Into Museum

In 1930, JRR Tolkien moved into 20 Northmoor Road in Oxford, which is where he ended up writing The Hobbit, a story that began as a children’s bedtime story. Project Northmoor, created by author Julia Golding, is crowdsourcing to raise £4.5m ($6m) with the goal of purchasing the home to convert it into a literary center. And some big name actors have joined in to help.

Memorial Drive Optioned To Sony Pictures TV

Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, will have her memoir turned into a drama series by Sony Pictures TV: Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir. The book follows Trethewey as she deals with her mother’s murder by her former stepfather.

Julianna Margulies Joins The Morning Show’s 2nd Season

The Morning Show, inspired by Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV by Brian Stelter, on Apple TV+ will have a new cast member for season 2: Julianna Margulies. She’ll play an anchor and join the already star-studded cast that includes Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon.

The Best Epigraphs of 2020

Savor some beautiful words from some of this year’s most wonderful books. These are the best epigraphs from books published in 2020.