Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate, Has Died at 88
Confirmed now by Vulture and the Associated Press, the iconic and vastly influential author Toni Morrison passed away this Monday night. Her publisher Alfred A. Knopf...
How to Format a Book: 10 Tips Your Editor Wants You To Know
Unless you prefer your friends to be story nerds or those who lean toward obsessive-compulsive tendencies when it comes to grammar, you shouldn’t necessarily seek to...
How to Understand the Great Haunted Houses of Literature
As award-winning horror writer Stephen Graham Jones writes, there are two types of haunted houses in fiction: Stay Away Houses and Hungry Houses. That is to...
Jia Tolentino’s “Trick Mirror” Unspools the Chaos of the Internet
Jia Tolentino’s essays are that rare thing: they maintain the clarity of critical distance while discussing the world in which the writer is immersed. The pieces...
How Women Writers Are Reinventing Freud
A college professor of mine put it bluntly: “Marx lost, Freud won” in the implicit race to be the 20th century’s seminal influencer of cultural thought....
Local, Radical, Memorable: October Books
Like so many people reading this, I love independent bookshops. They feel like spaces separate from the world around them, little pockets of magic hiding on...
10 Books With Song Titles for Your Playlist
Got a road trip planned? Before you head off into the sunset, make sure you’ve got a few good books for your down time. These ten...
Comics to Get Through a Reading Slump
Every summer, I hit this weird reading slump where comics are basically the only books I can stomach. Last summer, I focused on comics to read in...
Check Out ALL Of Reese Witherspoon’s Book Recommendations
In case you haven’t noticed, Reese Witherspoon’s book recommendations are kind of a big deal these days. The actress started posting about her reads on Instagram...
LUUUUCCCYYYYYY!: Read The Stories of Lucy, Ricky, and More
My sophomore year of high school, one of the assignments we had was to pick a biography or an autobiography of someone famous and prepare a...
