Dana Gioia
Forget the Summer of Love. Bierce is the real voice of San Francisco—mordant, worldly, skeptical, and witty.
—The Hungry Mind Review
Today word nerds everywhere are celebrating National Scrabble Day, by hoarding our S tiles, challenging our opponent’s play of the word HASHTAG (totally legal now), and reading some great books that remind us why we became language lovers in the first place. While waiting for a U tile to pair with that Q, here are […]
The chances you will at some point in your life be called on to make a wedding toast—or, perhaps, will decide all on your own to drunkenly stand up and make an unscheduled wedding toast you were not called on to make—are pretty high. The shy, the gregarious, the loners: no matter what we do to avoid […]
Not So Normal Norbert Author Joey Green Shares His Top 5 Favorite Funny Middle Grade Adventure Books
Don’t get me wrong. I would still read stuff. I bought every Peanuts paperback book ever printed and subscribed to Mad magazine. You know, stuff teachers considered garbage. It wasn’t until my mother told me to read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that I realized not all books are boring. Like my buddy James Patterson […]