Being a fan of George R.R. Martin’s work is like entering a marathon you never trained for: eventually, you will cross that finish line—even if it takes hours, days, or years—but you’re going to require a bunch of breaks along the way. Game of Thrones has certainly helped us all while away the hours until the release of The Winds […]

Fans of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series were saddened (if not wholly surprised) when word broke late last week that we’re more than likely going to be cooling our heels until 2016 waiting for The Winds of Winter, the sixth installment in the blockbuster epic fantasy saga following 2011’s A […]

Welcome to the Book Nerd’s Guide to Life! Every other week, we convene in this safe place to discuss the unique challenges of life for people whose noses are always wedged in books. For past guides, click here. To be clear, the title of this post was not referring to the excellent C-SPAN series Book […]

The Innovators, by Walter Isaacson, is the latest fascinating dive into tech history from the author of Steve Jobs. Widening his scope from one man to the birth of an entire medium, the book explores the brilliant minds and events that made the internet possible. For a look at an earlier era of rapid changes […]

Four years on, I’m still shocked by the massive success of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Sure, I expected it to look pretty (it’s HBO after all), and as a fan of George R.R. Martin’s books, I knew the story and characters could more than sustain a weekly narrative. But the fantasy trappings—court politics, warring kings, magical priestesses, heroes […]