As a bright, eager, and woefully ungrammatical undergraduate, I had the good fortune of having a professor kind and honest ...
In The Well-Readheads, copper-locked contributors Rebecca Joines Schinsky and Liberty Hardy discuss their love of literature and all things book-related. ____________________ ...
This past Wednesday was National Thesaurus Day, and I completely failed to notice. How embarrassing. Upsetting. Awkward. Disappointing. Discomforting. Discomfiting. ...
In the fall of 2010, I started wondering why there weren’t more awards (for books) given by bloggers. There are ...
The field of sixteen and brackets for the 2012 Tournament of Books was announced yesterday, so it’s time to rev ...
One of my reading goals for this year is to subscribe to a literary quarterly, but when it comes to ...
One of my favorite daydream pursuits is the Dinner Table in the Sky – deciding who, living or dead, I’d ...
To find a twitching sign of life in the idea that everyone has a book in them, consider how we ...
On a recent visit to the New York Public Library’s main branch, I found myself mesmerized by the centennial exhibit ...
They might be the great chroniclers of what happens between mankind’s ears – giving language to our greatest fears, hopes ...