The literary interwebs seems to have lit up in recent weeks with posts about jerk-ass authors. Earlier this week, a wonderfully hilarious post by Chuck Wendig made the rounds. It’s titled 25 Bad Writer Behaviors (Or, How Not To Act Like A Rabid Little Penmonkey in Public). The site Stop the GR (Good Reads) Bullies [...]
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For the purpose of this piece, let us divide the world: there are cat people and dog people, introverts and extroverts, books that are warm and books that are cold. What’s a warm book? You know one when you read one. It is in possession of a color palette in the reds and purples. RuPaul’s [...]
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I’ve expressed before my total geekdom for all things politics and news-related. My day job as an editor for a newswire in DC totally feeds into – and probably spawned – this nerdtastity. I also love great dialogue, robust plot lines and engaging characters. Which is why it should be no surprise that I am [...]
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Sometimes it’s interesting to watch a fight. That’s even more likely to be true if the fight is a literary one. A particularly interesting literary battle, one close to my own heart, has been playing out on the pages of the website Salon over the past couple days, and the author standing at the center [...]
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Our weekly round-up of the best bookish lists floating around the internet. At Flavorwire, 10 Great Off-Kilter Love Stories in Literature At Brain Pickings, Italo Calvino’s 14 Definitions of What Makes a Classic At Terrible Minds, 25 Bad Writer Behaviors At Goodreads, Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s Favorite Books About Books At The Millions, Burnt-out Summer Reads [...]
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For Cassie, who asked to withhold her last name, the break from societal norms is the appeal. “I love Christian because he’s a bit disturbed,” she says. BREAKING: New research indicates adolescent girls may have tendency to push boundaries.
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This evening, in conjunction with San Diego Comic Con programming, Neil Gaiman announced that he will celebrate the 25th anniversary of his first Sandman book by publishing a prequel series.
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You can submit your guess using the form below after any clue, but if you’re wrong, you’re out for the week. So you’ve got to pick your spot. Too early and you might be wrong; wait until you’re sure, and you might get scooped. **Be warned: if you Tweet your guess or leave a comment with your [...]
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While nothing can ever replace the wisdom of Calvin and Hobbes in the funny pages, there is a contender for the comic strip’s perch at the intersection of hilarious and literary. It’s Frazz by Jef Mallett. Been around for a decade but seems to be chronically underappreciated. Are you reading it yet? Climb aboard! Here’s [...]
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For book lovers, bookmobiles are oddly romantic. They seem like dream-machines, very real automobiles rolling through our lives in an almost impossible fashion. The first American bookmobile was actually a wagon. Mary Titcomb, a Maryland librarian, recgonized that having books was only one part of the library’s job: the other part was making the books [...]
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I don’t know about you, but the further I get into The Great Gatsby, the more convinced I am that the totally insane looking movie is going to be just fantastic. And although most book-to-movie adaptations are disappointing, I seem to have movie fever, and can’t help thinking that a couple of the books I’ve [...]
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What seem fatal flaws to one generation strike the next as displays of artistic courage. This is the main reason I tend to ignore the contemporary books that everybody seems to love. ____________________________ The named pirate’s Twitter and personal webpages have subsequently been removed, and Goodkind said that immediately after his post, almost all [...]
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Hemingway famously said that he re-wrote the ending of A Farewell to Arms 39 times before he got it right. Turns out, it was actually 47. And you’ll be able to read them all, along with early drafts of essential passages, in a new edition of the book coming out this week from Scribner. That [...]
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Greetings from the beach, fellow readers. I hope this week more of you will chime in with your current TBR piles, because that way I can use your upcoming reading choices as fodder for lists I’ll be making as I raid the bookstores of Cape Cod. Watch out, Where the Sidewalk Ends! Beware, Brewster Bookstore! [...]
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The Conversation table: A coffee table in the shape of a conversation bubble, this puppy is also eco-friendly and thus quite pricey, but still awesome, by Designer Leo Kempf . Happiness mug: This mug pretty much sums it up. “I Just Nevilled Up” Tee: The Harry Potter series will always be cool in my book, via redbubble. DIY [...]
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It’s dang near impossible to have a single favorite line from The Great Gatsby, so let’s at least break it into halves. If you have a favorite passage from the first four chapters, give it to us in this thread over on the Book Riot forums and you’ll be entered to win this nifty Gatsby [...]
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