I choose you, inanimate printed book, to be my Valentine
Today is the great Hallmark day of romance. Call it bullshit, but as a Scorpio, I’ve calculated that I was most likely conceived on Valentine’s Day. So umm, happy conception… Read more »
Michael B. Jordan to produce Marlon James’s “African Game of Thrones”
Unless you live under a rock, you’ll have heard that Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the new novel and first of a trilogy by Booker Prize winning Jamaican author Marlon James,… Read more »
Trump leaving climate change out of his SOTU did not go unnoticed
Remember climate change? Remember how President Donald Trump didn’t mention climate in his State of the Union 2019? Of course you do and of course he didn’t. DJ Trump don’t spin… Read more »
Dammit, Barbara Ehrenreich, did you tweet something racist?
Racism has a habit of rearing its ugly head when you least expect it, and sometimes that can mean from the people you least expect. Usually when that happens, it… Read more »
Have a literary tattoo? There’s a convention for that
You read that right. And if you’re reading this, I bet you have a literary tattoo. And if you do, I bet you’ve done the rounds online, reading listicles like Buzzfeed’s… Read more »
The Unmanning of the Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize is no more! …in name at least. Before I launch into some thoughts about that, first the remedial info. As reported by the Guardian’s Caroline Davies,… Read more »
Let the bidding war for John Kelly’s tell-all memoir begin!
There are days when you look at your bank account and think to yourself, maybe I’ll go work in the Trump administration for a year, get fired, and write a… Read more »
Five great long reads by our authors in 2018
One of the great thing about our writers is being able to follow their activities beyond the book. We’re always curious to see where their journalistic noses have sniffing out and we… Read more »
An interview with the owner of a newly opened hometown bookstore
Ok, I’m lying to you guys. Because my father was in the military, I do not have a hometown to claim. Alexandria, Virginia, where my family was once stationed while… Read more »
A Brooklyn library was given literary landmark status
We all love libraries. But have you ever loved a library so much you wanted to see it immortalized in a work of art? Have you ever loved a library… Read more »