This year’s Pulitzer Prize winners are an interesting batch, with subject manner running the gamut from North Korean orphanages to the real-life Count of Monte Cristo. Here’s the lowdown on these newly anointed winners—let us know if you’ve read any of them in the comments, or share what book you [...]
Family Circle calls Nichole Bernier‘s debut novel a “smart, bittersweet tale [that] brilliantly captures what it means to be a mom, wife and friend.” The hardcover has an abstract feel, while the paperback image is more immediate. Nichole is here to talk about her involvement with each, and her feelings [...]
In many ways, the opulent parties and narcissistic revelry found in The Great Gatsby are very similar to modern everyday life. If by “opulent parties and general revelry” you are referring to watching Netflix and going to bed at 9:30. In one way, though, Gatsby really is just like real [...]
Congrats! You’re a bibliophile. You love the book and the book loves you. But has this ever happened: you’re out one night, socializing, talking to a human, and then, out of nowhere, he says nonchalantly “I don’t read books.” “I’m sorry, what?” you ask. He explains that he just doesn’t, [...]
Chapter Three: The Crisis in Woman’s Identity Or, I Know You Are But Who Am I? Thesis alert! We finally get it on page 77, at which point a journalism professor would already have given Friedan an F for burying her lede:
Many recovery programs state that acceptance is the first step towards change—but when it comes to HBO’s Game of Thrones, I humbly disagree. I fully accept my obsessions with Game of Thrones, but that understanding doesn’t change a thing. If anything, the revelation that a large part of my existence [...]
Stacy Schiff gets it. She gets people. She studies lives tirelessly and fiercely and perfectly, and when she is finished studying, she publishes works of flawlessly interpreted, beautiful and meticulously researched prose. Her biographies have reawakened my love of history, and given me the gift of feeling well-informed and eloquent [...]
TO: Lord Garbanzo Cuddly-Wumpkins III, Department Manager FROM: Bartholomew Fuzzybottom, Senior Marketing Advisor DATE: April 19, 2013 SUBJECT: Mass Media Domination Analysis shows that in spite of our overwhelming success in manipulating human emotion with “cutesy” humor on the internet, there is a striking lack of feline presence in the [...]
For the past 25 years, millions of fantasy fans worldwide have followed R.A. Salvatore—and his signature character, the introspective dark elf Drizzt Do’Urden—through countless adventures and existential and spiritual awakenings in the sprawling realm of Abeir-Toril. This saga—two dozen novels long and counting—is easily one of the very best adventure [...]
