A Year in Reading: Mike Isaac
Most of my 2019 has been spent in a blur of hating words—my own. Editing a 140,000-word transcript that would eventually become a book forced me...
This Woman Created Her Own Writing Conference — Here’s How You Can, Too
In 2018, I launched the Belize Writers Conference (BWC). It was a dream of mine to start a writing conference and introduce fellow writers to my...
The Long, Dark History of Russia’s Murder, Inc.
According Le Monde, citing French intelligence, the GRU has for several years maintained a rear base of operations in the Haute-Savoie region of the French Alps....
Love Is a Yellow Hotel in Yugoslavia
“Return Trips”by Alice Adams Some years ago I spent a hot and mostly miserable summer in an ugly yellow hotel on the steep and thickly wooded,...
7 of the Most Vicious Book Reviews, Ranked
Many critics love reading mean book reviews, even if they don’t like to write them. This was a finding from my book Inside the Critics’ Circle wherein...
“Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung” Reclaims the Voices of Women from Myth
In Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung, Nina MacLaughlin spins anew the tapestry of tales that makes up Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Her retelling gives voice to more than 30...
3 Comics About Antihero ‘Ships
What is it about bad guys in love that captivates fans’ hearts? Is it watching two flawed people learn to care for each other? Or maybe...
14 Romance Books Matched With Hogwarts Houses
Harry Potter is a phenomenon in the pop culture world. It has stayed with us for a very long time and continues to be there for...
The Best Pablo Neruda Poems: 5 of His Classic Works
If you want to read one of the world’s best poets, Pablo Neruda is the perfect place to start. Start with five of the best Pablo...
To Outsiders, YA Is Eating Itself; To Insiders, It’s Bettering Itself.
For many, the 2010s have been a tremendous decade of change. It was ushered in under the presidency of Barack Obama, where hope and change wove...
