Plan To Turn Oscar Wilde’s Prison Into Arts Centre Rejected
First a bit of history on HM Reading Prison: it jailed Oscar Wilde in 1895 for two years (he wrote about it in his poem “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”); in 2014 it stopped being a working jail; last year it went up for sale. Stephen Fry and Julian Barnes joined other writers and campaigners to convert the prison into an arts centre but the bid has been rejected by the Ministry of Justice.
B&N Distribution Center Employees Diagnosed With COVID-19
Employees at a Barnes & Noble distribution center in Monroe, New Jersey received a letter informing them that nine of their coworkers have COVID-19 symptoms and five of those nine have officially been diagnosed by doctors. Barnes & Noble has no plans to close the facility saying it will continue its daily cleaning along with a deep cleaning on Good Friday.
Child Journalist Gets Apple TV+ Series
Apple TV+ has a new series inspired by Hilde Lysiak, a child journalist who at the age of nine “scooped a local homicide case in her Pennsylvania hometown.” Home Before Dark‘s first season, 10 episodes, is now streaming on Apple TV+. And Lysiak also has a children’s book mystery series you can check out: Hero Dog!: A Branches Book (Hilde Cracks the Case #1) by Hilde Lysiak, Matthew Lysiak.