You know that feeling when you’re reading a novel and suddenly you come across a description or a scene and ...
The Venn Diagram of three of my most loved passions—books, road trips, and rock and roll—intersects most perfectly with the ...
If you’re the sort of person who keeps the compass used for navigating life in the pocket of your intuition, ...
This is a guest post from Andy Browers. Andy believes in going to State Fairs, road trips, fist-pumping at wedding receptions to ...
Hollywood loves to mine the book world for stories, new and old, that can be re-imagined and brought to the ...
I was a tyrant, and lo! my classroom was my kingdom. The past tense is such a relief. For me ...
My California is a state that’s best lived outdoors, with a book or two in your backpack. There is much ...
In recent weeks, we’ve posted video guides to authors like William Faulkner and Seamus Heaney, which included their Nobel Prize ...
We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, memoir, and ...
If you asked me to name the most literate / literary sitcom of all time, I would have to begin ...
Sometimes, late at night, as I’m trying to get to sleep, I’ll torpedo the whole attempt by asking myself life’s ...
This is a guest post by our current Rioter in Residence, Kevin Smokler. Kevin is the author of forthcoming essay collection ...
“If a book doesn’t grab me in the first 50 (100? 150?) pages, I quit. I don’t have the time ...
This is a guest post from Nicole Perrin. Nicole is an editor, reader, tea drinker, and lit blogger (not necessarily in ...
Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath being as commonplace as they are in the respective book-bags of ...
