If you could read one a day…well, it would be an interesting challenge anyhow. Daniel Dalton of BuzzFeed made the picks. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt: The beloved fable about…Continue readingCan you read a novel a day?
1. There are times that I have sat and watched words which *I am typing* appear on the screen in front of my eyes… and not recognized them. That’s how…Continue readingAn author confesses
Commencement Address to the College of Sidekicks and Secondary Characters Dear graduating class, As a writer, as someone who was there at your emergence, I am so very happy to…Continue readingCollege of Sidekicks
My first tweet wasn’t exactly profound. “Hello world” was all it said. Flavorwire looked up “The First Tweets of 25 Writers We Love” and none of them were actually profound,…Continue readingWhat did your first tweet say?
The library is the last, best socialized institution in America today and you’re about to lose it, Democrats Ramshield says at the DailyKos. Library budgets have become low hanging fruit…Continue readingWill you lose your library?
After discussing at length J.K. Rowling’s regrets about the Hermione/Ron relationship in Harry Potter, Elizabeth Minkel wrote in The Millions about five other authors who said they really wished they’d…Continue readingThe author regrets…
Miriam Tuliao at the York Public Library gives us a list of 25 books that have “offered unique insights about the world around us and changed the course of human…Continue readingThe books that changed history?
Many destinations are benefiting from their connection, however tenuous, to a popular work of literature, Mental Floss reminds us. Bath, England Bath Festival Jane Austen died in 1817 but still…Continue reading12 Literary Pilgrimages