Lilliam Rivera Writes Young Adults As the Face of Resistance
As I write this, right up the road, students from my alma mater are leading the largest student-led occupation in the college’s history in protest of...
Black Women Novelists You Should Be Reading
I’m incredibly thankful to live in a time when Black artists continue to carve out their voices in the field, making waves through self-publishing and traditional...
Do Teens Get Pushed Out of YA Books When It’s Called A Genre?
There’s been a lot of discussion in the YA book world about how YA books are becoming less and less about teen readers and instead, more...
Latina Authors From the Texas-Mexico Border You Should Know
I would like to use this piece to highlight the amazing contributions of several Latina authors/writers, specifically those from the Texas-Mexico border. The whole “crisis at...
I Need More Older Found Friendships In My Comic Books
My obsession with found friendships in comic books began with the Lumberjanes, of course. As Jo, April, Mal, Molly, and Ripley (and later Jen and Barney)...
7 Great New Literary Biographies for Your TBR
Literary biographies are wonderful because they allow us to learn about our favorite writers at the same time that we get glimpses into the world they...
Kwame Alexander’s Versify Imprint Launches in April
Exciting imprint news: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is premiering Versify this April. Curated by author Kwame Alexander, known for his rhyme-infused novels like Booked and Swing, it...
Comics I Brought Home From Emerald City Comic Con
A lot of the usual suspects were missing from the show floor at ECCC this year BOOM!Studios, Aftershock, Black Mask, and several other of my smaller,...
40 Magical Harry Potter Tattoos To Inspire Your Next Ink Session
More than half of my tattoos are literary, and if you’re anything like me, you do visual research before getting your tattoos—I’m talking YEARS of overplanning,...
Underrated Reference Books You’ll Read Cover To Cover
Reference books? Blech! Who wants to read the Oxford English Dictionary from cover to cover? Nobody, that’s who—except the lucky weirdo who gives it a shot....
