Alex Luppens-Dale won the “Enthusiastic Reader Award” all four years of high school. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and received her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. Her favorite genres are memoir, witches, and anything with cults. She lives in New Jersey. You can keep up with Alex's latest work at her website.
How reading fiction about doomsday cults can actually be an exercise in optimism and hope. Someone has to live to tell the story, after all.
There are some authors who take you places you'd never expect to go and you'll follow them because they're just that good.
What made it possible for you to read nonstop as a kid, especially if now it's hard to read more than a handful of pages before falling asleep?
I have come to think of my current book buying strategy as the “we have food at home” approach. Here's how it works.
The first line of Mrs. Dalloway is one of the best-known in literature. Here's a closer look at how it set up the rest of the novel.
After her passing, we look at who Joan Didion was, her influence on the literary world, and more.
A collection of some of the most fun, unique, and just plain interesting dragon-themed bookish items for your collection.
All of our life stories overlap, so what are the legal and ethical implications of writing about the people in your life in a memoir?
Who was V.C. Andrews? A look at the cult author's life and her second, afterlife.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer may have ended almost 20 years ago, but it's risen from the grave in the form of these new Buffy books.