Wisdom for the Winter Season
Writers lend their wisdom to persevere through winter with these winter quotes.
Writers lend their wisdom to persevere through winter with these winter quotes.
On reading Tim O'Brien's classic novel THE THINGS THEY CARRIED to understand the American soldier in Vietnam.
"Cline's personal win was another win for women: you can confront the monster who has plagued you and you can prevail."
As Halloween approaches, take a moment to familiarize yourself with these ghosts of the famed Hotel Chelsea in New York City
Geat scenes from Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
You've grilled the burgers, now get to reading.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, Joan Didion and E. B. White describe how summer heat affects their characters and their environment
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, author of FAREWELL TO MANZANAR, discusses her classic memoir at the Santa Monica Public Library.
PEN America seeks to protect the First Amendment Rights of journalists by publishing their Online Harassment Field Manual.
John Waters describes his hitchhiking journey across America in CARSICK, conquering his fears by imagining the worst and the best that could happen.
Dig into our interview Susie Bright, editor of the latest addition to the Akashic Noir Series, SANTA CRUZ NOIR, that "further reveals the seedy underbelly of the left coast."
Extraordinary and quite prolific contemporary American writer Alice Hoffman excels in weaving magical realism into her works of fiction; these passages from her novels THE RULES OF MAGIC and BLACKBIRD HOUSE help the reader appreciate how Hoffman builds her literary magic.
HBO's upcoming film, Fahrenheit 451, is certain to be a great film; the great Ray Bradbury novel remains a school classic 65 years after publication.
A collection of THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD quotes from Zora Neale Hurston's masterpiece. These are the passages that most moved one reader and the Literature Book Club whose members read the book together.
