“It’s hard to be funny, you can’t really plan on—you don’t know what will land with people…. absurdity just exists constantly in the world that we live in. And to my mind, the humor comes from the way different people traverse absurdity, how they try to normalize it, or how they freak out because they […]
Every year the Office for Intellectual Freedom, a branch of the American Library Association dedicated to fighting censorship, compiles a list of the books that have been banned or challenged by parents, schools, or libraries. When you look at these lists through the years, you begin to see patterns in the type of content challengers […]
Tenet Partners today announced that Barnes & Noble was named the number 1 retailer in a study of the Top 20 Most Powerful Back-to-School retail brands. Tenet Partners is a leading brand innovation and marketing firm, and its annual study of approximately 10,000 consumers and business decision-makers found that Barnes & Noble has the highest […]
John Green got the world’s attention with The Fault in Our Stars, as new readers discovered what his fans already knew: Green writes some of the most warmhearted, insightful fiction in young adult lit. His heart-tugging books are the perfect blend of funny and sad, specific and universal, with characters that are relatable, articulate, and weird […]
There are two kinds of people in this world: There are the people who love Black Friday (the hustle and bustle and holiday cheer), and the people who don’t (the parking, the crowds, the constant fear of being trampled for standing too close to the last half-price flatscreen). If you are one of the former, […]