Booktails from the Potions Library, with Mixologist Lindsay Merbaum
A carnival of strange delights awaits in Jen Fawkes’ Mannequin and Wife, a collection in which tender stories of taxidermy, talking piñatas, and sentient mannequins lay...
7 Novels Set During the COVID-19 Pandemic
These days, the early days of COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020 feel like a distant memory. Zoom fatigue, baking banana bread, toilet paper hoarding, learning absurd new...
The Masquerade of the Red Death Returns Bigger and Better Than Ever
It’s been three long years since our last Masquerade of the Red Death in 2019, and let’s just say that the plague is hitting a bit...
Book Banners are Weaponizing Legitimate Resources: Book Censorship News, October 28, 2022
The dangerous thing about this iteration of the book banning brigade is that they are using strategies and resources that weren’t around in decades earlier. While...
10 Non-Book Subscription Boxes That Often Include Books
I love subscription boxes. I consider it a person failing of mine that I will pay mightily to have a stranger send me things they have...
A Journey Through Edinburgh’s Bookstores
I recently spent an entire month in Edinburgh, Scotland. I had the absolute pleasure of being cast in a gender-swapped, American folk musical retelling of Pride...
We’re Here Too: 9 Queer Memoirs From Red Areas
There’s a sentiment that I see travel around the internet quite a bit whenever something terrible happens to an area that is historically a conservative area,...
The Top 25 TikTok Book Recommendations: 2022
BookTok is a wonderful place to find all kinds of TikTok book recommendations, especially in the young adult and romance genres. There are always so many...
14 Great Japanese Historical Fiction Books
Historical fiction is huge in Japan. Stories about feudal Japan especially — featuring samurai, ninja, and feudal lords — remain ubiquitously popular across all media forms....
8 Cozy Romance Books to Curl Up With For Fall
Here in New England, the weather is cooling. I have just started to pack away my sandals, beach blankets, and aloe vera (since the likelihood of...
