7 Short Story Collections That Examine Life in a Small Community
A woman who lives on my street knocked at my door. She told me and her husband, members of the local historical society, had written a...
Booktails From the Potions Library, with mixologist Lindsay Merbaum
In A Touch of Moonlight by Yaffa S. Santos, Larimar Cintrón is a successful 34 year-old brand manager at a growing chain of bakeries in NYC....
My Book, Plus 300+ Others, Is Banned in Missouri: Book Censorship News, November 18, 2022
This week, PEN America sent a letter to Missouri school boards and the state legislature, demanding a reversal to a spate of book bans enacted thanks...
Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your Covers, Expert Edition
A warning: this quiz is not for the faint of heart. It was made for those who know their covers and to which titles those covers...
2023 YA Book Title Earworms
There are a lot of YA books that feature music. This might be the theme of the book or it might be a motif within the...
Pulling Back the Curtain: Reading the Journals of Someone You Admire
Alan Rickman had no idea who I was and that was probably for the best because neither did I. I have just finished reading Madly Deeply,...
9 Inventive Robot Books for Kids
Robots and children’s stories have gone together for decades, but in the modern era, it’s no wonder that robot books for kids are more popular than...
8 Books about Drugs, from Science to Politics
With President Joe Biden pardoning thousands of people convicted of marijuana possession and the rise of microdosing psychedelics as a treatment for mental illness, now is...
The History of Fanny Hill and The Censoring of Women’s Pleasure
My introduction to Fanny Hill happened through a work of historical fiction by Elizabeth Gilbert named The Signature of All Things. It is a birth-to-death story...
The Blank Men of Horror and Thrillers
There’s nothing better than an iconic name in a horror movie. Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Chucky, and Jigsaw are villainously imprinted in the minds of pop...
