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10 iPad Covers That Aren’t “Boring As Hell”

Inspired by the related post Kindle Fire Covers That Aren’t “Boring As Hell” we decided to spotlight some of our ...

What I Hate About Being a Reader

Most serious readers love that they are serious readers, and the compensations of a robust reading life are much discussed. ...

Stop….Grammar Time.

As a bright, eager, and woefully ungrammatical undergraduate, I had the good fortune of having a professor kind and honest ...

The Well-Readheads: On Book Borrowing

In The Well-Readheads, copper-locked contributors Rebecca Joines Schinsky and Liberty Hardy discuss their love of literature and all things book-related. ____________________ ...

Every Day Should Be “Thesaurus Day”

This past Wednesday was National Thesaurus Day, and I completely failed to notice. How embarrassing. Upsetting. Awkward. Disappointing. Discomforting. Discomfiting. ...

Blogger-Given Awards Are Here to Stay (On the Indie Lit Awards)

In the fall of 2010, I started wondering why there weren’t more awards (for books) given by bloggers. There are ...

2012 Tournament of Books: Shortlist Surprises and Speculation

The field of sixteen and brackets for the 2012 Tournament of Books was announced yesterday, so it’s time to rev ...

What Literary Journal Should I Read?

One of my reading goals for this year is to subscribe to a literary quarterly, but when it comes to ...

Dinner Table in the Sky: Brit Edition

One of my favorite daydream pursuits is the Dinner Table in the Sky – deciding who, living or dead, I’d ...

“Nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody”: 2011 in Final Lines

To find a twitching sign of life in the idea that everyone has a book in them, consider how we ...