A is for anxiety!
“UK children pick ‘anxiety’ as their word of 2021”—blares a headline in The Guardian. Of course they did, we mutter morosely. Have you seen Euphoria? The kids aren’t alright. But… Read more »
“UK children pick ‘anxiety’ as their word of 2021”—blares a headline in The Guardian. Of course they did, we mutter morosely. Have you seen Euphoria? The kids aren’t alright. But… Read more »
A recent New York Times piece opens with author E. Lockhart seeing her 2014 book We Were Liars hitting the best-seller list over the summer of 2020. Baffled but pleased,… Read more »
Your special correspondent for the inability to read, write, or otherwise function during the pandemic is back. This time, it’s the writers of novels who are citing all sorts of… Read more »
Roald Dahl was an anti-Semite. We know this because he told The Independent, “I am certainly anti-Israel, and I have become anti-Semitic” in 1990. So, what you might call an… Read more »
Artists in merry old England want more access to their countryside. And to do so, they used the tried-and-true, never-fails method of penning an open letter to the prime minister.… Read more »
NetCredit, an online loan marketplace that provides unsecured personal loans, audited the most popular books set in various countries using data from GoodReads. (Wait, what?) I’m supposed to write two… Read more »
Raymond Chandler, author of hardboiled detective classics The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye among many others, isn’t exactly known for his silly side. But apparently, he once wrote a… Read more »
Every year, as the leaves turn goldenrod and the kiddos go back to school, the American Library Association rolls out a list of the books most challenged by libraries and… Read more »
Dorothy Parker left no instructions for her remains, barring the following utterance: “Excuse my dust.” So, in the face of the gnomic wisdom of a dead writer, the people did… Read more »
Is that? Do I hear? Is that the sound of good news? Well, not quite. Here’s where we’re at. As reported in Publishers Weekly, the Department of Justice motioned for… Read more »