Since When They See Us debuted, Linda Fairstein has become the latest author to face […]
Protect Your Darlings?
In a recent article for LitHub, Brandon Taylor wrote about his rejection of advice he […]
Still Banning Books
On Monday, the American Library Association released their “State of American Libraries 2019” report. Among […]
Intertextual Time Travel
Last week, I wrote a two parter about The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri, and “The […]
In Praise of…Footnotes
I can’t remember when I first read Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman*, but […]
I Take Issue…With Bad Copycat Publishing
I understand. I really do. Publishers want to make money and, traditionally, the best way […]
Reading Out of Time; Or, Blowing the Bloody Doors Off of Authorial Intent
Over a year ago, I read Shirley Jackson’s delightfully creepy The Haunting of Hill House. Being a reader in […]
A hoard of thoughts about KonMari
Since it’s currently impossible to avoid reading about—and therefore thinking about—Marie Kondo and readers’ reactions […]
To Hell with FOMO; Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Best of the Year Book Lists
It wasn’t so long ago that I received the flurry of best of the year […]
Putting Words in People’s Mouths; Or, Thoughts about Dialogue
I’ve been thinking about dialogue lately, since I dinged The Hangman’s Secret for putting anachronistic and American-flavored […]