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Friday at last! What do you want to talk about so you can head into the weekend happy?

The other night I slammed the brakes on a film—something I rarely do, but this one managed to be both ...

Stop!…Grammar Time is an occasional feature about grammar, style, and writing. Sometimes with 90s Top-40 references. Sometimes not. ____________________________ Ok, great. You know ...

(Yeah, I spell judgement like a Canadian. Deal with it.) You know how sometimes you see someone reading a book, ...

In the March 18th edition of the NY Times, there’s a piece by Jhumpa Lahiri called “My Life’s Sentences.” It’s ...

This installment of Riot Recommendation is sponsored by After the Snow by S.D. Crockett.  The oceans stopped working before Willo was born, ...

I didn’t go to any schools that really required memorization. I have a vague memory of needing to memorize the ...

On the surface, The Odds and Delirium don’t have much in common. Delirium is a popular YA dystopian novel. The Odds is a new ...

Interesting discussion about teaching the Bible as literature in yesterday’s thread. Today, I’m fully in the throes of spring fever ...

Sci-fi about dragons is an escapist dorktasm.

Hope springs eternal! Happy Opening Day! Baseball’s summer-long march to the Fall Classic begins today, and to celebrate and get ...

Last week, the MLA* ranked the top 25 American writers according to the amount of scholarship that has been devoted ...

Customers often bring me books off the shelves and ask me if I can tell them anything about them. There ...

David Foster Wallace had quite a following before his suicide in 2008, but his posthumous success has turned the timbre ...

Man, am I curious to know what Charlie Kaufman’s novel is about. Aren’t you? Have you seen his films? Being ...