Terry Pratchett on an archive picture. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe/Eamonn McCabe As the literary world mourns the death of Discworld creator Terry Pratchett, The Guardian has selected some of his most…Continue readingTerry in quotes
Megan Paolone at BuzzFeed selected 24 haiku in honor of the National Grammar Day. (It’s over. Sorry you missed it.) (Nothing lonelier than a parenthetical opened but not closed allison…Continue readingHug your editor
At Bustle, Becky Schultz talks about the 11 Books You’d Find On Lisa Simpson’s Shelf because she has great literary taste. For example: Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan After…Continue readingWhat Lisa Simpson Reads
“Some people check out books,” Taylor Glascock writes. “Other people check out dudes. Some people do both.” “Created at the beginning of February 2015, the Instagram account @hotdudesreading immediately garnered…Continue readingHot Dudes Reading
With my first time travel novel, AbductiCon, now out, the following story quite naturally caught my eye. And maybe someday, someone will want to make a movie out of it.…Continue readingIs now the time?
Fetish, n. Something irrationally reverenced Not all fetishes are sexual, Daniel Dalton writes at BuzzFeed. Sometimes you just really love something inanimate, intangible, or non-human… Daniel Dalton / BuzzFeed /…Continue readingWhat’s your fetish?
There is a bookstore in Novi Sad, the city in which I was born – a place that smelled of books, and of yellowing paper, and of aging book binding…Continue readingGerman Indians
The Greatest Spies In Pop Culture In fiction — as well as the real world — spies are everywhere. At io9, Katharine Trendacosta and Meredith Woerner picked 50 out of…Continue readingWho’s your favorite spy?
At the Ted talk blog, Helene Batt and Kate Torgovnick May examine 40 brilliant idioms that simply can’t be translated literally As our Open Translation Project volunteers translate TED Talks…Continue readingTomato eyes?
I write books. I tell stories. I create worlds, and the characters who inhabit them. I know I have hit my mark when I get a reaction from readers —…Continue readingYou killed her!