6 Creative Ways to Name Your Fictional Characters
When you start writing your story, how long does it take you to come up with character names? Choosing the perfect name for your protagonist and...
When Your First Date Is Orchestrated by an Otter
“Bottles of Beaujolais” by David Wong Louie I will move storms . . . —a midsummer night’s dream It was a little after eight one morning...
A Handbook for Fighting Racism in America
Ibram X. Kendi opens his latest book with his worst memory as a high school student competing in an oratorical contest. Having spent his short lifetime...
9 Novels Set in Boarding Schools
There’s something about the end of the summer that always engenders the subtle or, in some cases, deafening anxiety that comes along with the start of...
2019 Australian Children’s Book of the Year Awards Winners
Every year in August, the Children’s Book Council of Australia hosts National Book Week, filled with celebrations for all things literary. Across Australia, schools and libraries...
12 Thought-Provoking Quotes By Authors With August Birthdays
Life never fulfills the promises it made or the promises we thought it has made. In moments when we are too weighed down by the frustration...
14 Romantic Suspense Books You Won’t Be Able to Put Down
Romantic suspense books are the perfect fusion between mystery and love story. These books tend to combine more traditional steamy romance plot lines with all the...
11 Nonfiction Science Comics for Adults
Sometimes you want to learn something, but you also love comics and want to spend every waking minute absorbing them through your eyes. What’s a megafan...
Has DISCLOSURE Aged Well in a MeToo Era?
Spoilers ahead! When I was in grade school, my tittering classmates and I would pass around a battered copy of Michael Crichton’s Disclosure, where we all...
Emily Dickinson, Wild Child? Check Out the Trailer for DICKINSON
2019 has been, among other things, the year that the world at large figured out what a smaller group of librarians, scholars, poets, queer folks, and...
