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7 Classic Cocktails for Classic Books

This is a guest post from Shannon McIntyre. Shannon is Southern-born, book-reading, and cocktail-obsessed. Growing up in the South gave her ...

How I Got Into Nonfiction

This is a guest post from Sarah Rettger. Sarah spends her nights selling books (in all formats) at an independent bookstore ...

Why Hating Paper is Old-Fashioned

This is a guest post by Derek Attig. Derek is a graduate student in History at the University of Illinois where ...

Genre Kryptonite: The Modern Gothic

This is a guest post from Jeanette Solomon. Jeanette lives in a world made of words. She has an MA in ...

Genre Kryptonite: Metafictional Children’s Literature

This is a guest post by Minh Le. Minh works in early childhood policy and helped design 826DC‘s Museum of Unnatural History. He ...

Four Webcomic Artists I’d Give All My Money to If They’d Kickstart a Book

This is a guest post from Eric Smith. Eric is the social media and marketing manager at Quirk Books. When he ...

Literary Cures for Whatever Ails You

This is a guest post by Becky Cole. Becky enjoys expertly-wielded punctuation, words with oddly precise meanings, and fine dark chocolate. ...

Genre Kryptonite: Books About Libraries

This is a guest post from Jonathan Streeter. Jonathan is a husband, the father of three young children, and an English ...

Gatsby’s American Dream: The Most Literary Band You’ve Never Heard Of

This is a guest post from Eric Smith. Eric is the social media and marketing manager at Quirk Books. When he ...

Genre Kryptonite: Christian Spiritual Memoirs

Kate Scott blogs about books at ParchmentGirl.com and is a reviewer for The Vessel Project. Follow her on Twitter @ParchmentGirl37. I’ve been hooked ...