12 Literary Podcasts for Writers and Readers
What I love most about the plethora of literary podcasts on air these days is that each podcast feels like entering a niche corner within the...
For Melania Luisa Marte, Poems Are for Spellcasting
If ever there was a poetry collection you yearn to viscerally sink your teeth into, as if biting into a freshly ripe mango, it’s Melania Luisa...
7 Cozy Mysteries To Curl Up With
Some might think of cozy mysteries as edgeless and old-fashioned, but that’s only the case if you want it to be. To my mind, the genre...
Book Fairs Will See An Increase In Censorship Attempts This Year: Book Censorship News, September 15, 2023
Over the last three years, we have seen and heard every excuse from book banners for why they do not ban books. They instead “curate” or...
13 Book Clubs New September 2023 Picks, From Reese’s Book Club To Mocha Girls Read
It’s time to play what did the book clubs pick this month? First, I’ll start with some FYI. In July’s roundup, I added Vulture’s podcast Into...
A Room of One’s Pwn: 10 Fun Books Like World of Warcraft
I loooove playing World of Warcraft. Am I any good at it? Not in the least. But I don’t let that stop me! World of Warcraft...
20 of the Most Thought-Provoking, Philosophical Science Fiction Books of All Time
Science fiction is such a broad genre that it’s hard to nail down as about any one “thing.” Plenty of sci-fi novels offer entertainment and needed...
The Fantastical Sub-Genre of Mythpunk Books
Between you, me, and the fantasy section at my local bookstore, mythpunk books are definitely my jam. It’s right there on the label: a blend of...
Do Goodreads and StoryGraph Users Rate Books Differently?
As much as we’d rather avoid using Goodreads for a variety of reasons, it may be useful for book discovery. It was the first social media...
Chloe Aridjis’s Night-Sea Journey
In the Jungian lexicon, “night-sea journey” refers to a voyage into the unknown, a descent from the day-lit world into murky regions of the unconscious where...
