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10 Ways to Honor Kurt Vonnegut on his Birthday

Happy Birthday Kurt Vonnegut

7 Great Author Visits to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Best author interviews on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

10 Signs You Might Be In A John Irving Novel

Are you really living in a John Irving Novel? Here are ten signs that you just might be.

Book To Big Screen: Writers Adapt Their Own Fiction (A Top Five)

It’s a golden age if you’re novelist-slash-screenwriter! In the past, it’s been a relatively rare occurrence that a writer would ...

We Remember Robin Williams’ Most Bangarang Bookish Movie Roles

Robin Williams brought some of our favorite bookish characters to life during his acting career. Let's remember.

Reading List for the Dog Days of Summer

Here we are, the dog days. Doesn’t August just seem interminable? If it were up to me, we’d all count ...

The Books That Helped Me Move On

Author Caroline Leavitt describes the books that helped her break free of her marriage.

What Your Brain Sounds Like On Books

Everyone has synaesthesia. Thankfully, this is not some terrible equine-meat borne virus. It is when our synapses put their keys ...

4 Books That Would Be Better as Choose-Your-Own-Adventures

A few weeks ago, an enterprising Cambridge, Mass. native named Ryan North threw up a Kickstarter to fund a project ...

Top 10 Best Books Serial Book-Abandoners May Have Missed

“If a book doesn’t grab me in the first 50 (100? 150?) pages, I quit. I don’t have the time ...