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Reading Beyond Your Depths

This is a guest post from Camila Domonoske. Camila is an editor and producer at NPR. Her writing on literature, culture, ...

7 Habits of Highly Effective Readers

This is a guest post by Jessica Woodbury. Her professional life has taken her to prisons, classrooms, strip clubs, and her ...

Mourning Maya

This is a guest post by Maya Payne Smart. Maya is a globetrotting writer who enjoys food trucks, toddler art ...

How I Became a Book Quitter

This is a guest post by Jessica Woodbury. Her professional life has taken her to prisons, classrooms, strip clubs, and her ...

There’s a Kids Book for That!

This is a guest post by Cristin Stickles. Cristin spent a decade in children’s book publishing and is now the Children’s ...

We Need Diverse Books to Build Character Through Characters

This is a guest post by Maya Payne Smart. Maya is a globetrotting writer who enjoys food trucks, toddler art and ...

A New Level of Reader’s Guilt

This always happens. I let writing projects pile up until I finally end up with reader’s block, which is kind ...

My Life in 16 Authors

This is a guest post by Cristin Stickles. Cristin spent a decade in children’s book publishing and is now the Children’s ...

Literary Tourism: Cape Cod

This is a guest post by Christopher Setterlund, the author of In My Footsteps: A Cape Cod Travel Guide, released ...

How Do You Hold Onto What You Read?

This is a guest post by Ashley Riordan. Ashley is a graduate student in California who works in a library, makes videos ...