Happy Valentine’s Day to These Literary Characters I’m Still Totally Crushing On
As a young man or young woman, your thoughts are overwhelmingly consumed by crushes. This is likely some kind of…
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6 Books We Wish They’d Adapt Into Video Games
A few years ago, some guy made a fake, early ’90s Nintendo Entertainment System-style video of gameplay of a video…
6 Fictional Dogs We Wish Were Our Dogs
Dogs are like coffee—not exactly rare, but nonetheless incredibly wonderful and never tiresome. It is absolutely delightful to encounter a…
6 Literary Sequels You Never Knew Existed
Sure, there’s Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women sequel called Little Men, and last year we finally got Harper Lee’s To…
5 Great Novels That Will Probably Never Be Made Into Movies
In the fall and winter, movies get a bit more serious than they do in the summer, when it’s all…
Lesser-Known Series by 5 Hugely Popular Authors
While there are have been plenty of hugely popular series in recent years—Fifty Shades of Grey, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games,…
Remembering Edward Albee: 5 Plays to Read Now
Last September, Edward Albee passed away at the age of 88. Among the last great major American playwrights of the…
6 Great Books for the Comedy Nerd on Your Gift List
Everybody knows a hardcore comedy fan. That person who has a Simpsons quote for every occasion, or who can discuss and…
5 Novels Authors Didn’t Finish Because They Inconveniently Died
Most careers are ones you can, or get, to retire from at a certain age. Not writing! Authors get wiser…
7 TV Shows You May Not Have Known Were Based on Books
So most of television is reality TV, reruns of The Big Bang Theory, and talk shows devoted to discussing the…
6 of the Best Cameos by Real People in Works of Fiction
Fiction is fiction and nonfiction is nonfiction, and in case you get those mixed up, fiction is the “not real…
8 Kooky Cookbooks Inspired by Movies and TV
Cookbooks are among the most popular genres of books, across the board. Even if you never actually get around to trying…
6 of the Greatest Publicity Stunts in Publishing History
While it’s impossible to read all of the thousands of books that are released each year, it’s almost as impossible…
Hopping Onto August Wilson’s The Pittsburgh Cycle
August Wilson (1945-2005) left behind a body of nearly 20 plays, but a good deal of his life’s work consists…
5 Rock Stars Who Dabbled in Fiction
It’s kind of unfair: the five multitalented people below get to live the rock star dream, yet also somehow have enough…
The Books Behind 8 Popular Musicals
In musical theater parlance, “book” refers to the non-sung portions of the script, or the dialogue and stage directions. But there…
