Big Books from the 1950s
The 1950s saw the emergence of literary lights including J.D. Salinger and Jack Kerouac, authors whose books questioned the status quo and the…
The 1950s saw the emergence of literary lights including J.D. Salinger and Jack Kerouac, authors whose books questioned the status quo and the…
Parents complicate things. They force you to change clothes, insist you come home before curfew, and demand to meet the…
So many of the books we read in high school get an undeservedly bad rap. It’s not that they’re boring stories…
The holidays usually bring out the best in people, but every so often you witness the worst. That woman who…
It’s easy to write something bad and then never look at it again. Thousands of people did it just last month—it’s…
In third grade, I was in love with JTT (who wasn’t?) but I also dreamed of running away with the…
Like a lot of kids, there were times in my childhood where I was convinced some grand mistake had been…
Not only do Australian teens not get shoved into lockers or have slushies thrown in their faces during high school,…
This week, it was once again demonstrated that irony is not lost on the internet, when more than 5,000 people…
Picture it: your local coffee shop, that one time you don’t like talking about. You and your pals are gathered…
It’s 2014! (Thankfully Aeon the aging time vulture didn’t kidnap the baby New Year.) As the light of the dawning new…
When I was in fifth grade, my dad gave me a big stack of classic books that, in retrospect, I…
Say you’re going out for a night on the town, and romance is on your brain. You’d be wise to…
We love us a narrator who’s insane in the membrane. Aware or unaware of their manipulations and omissions, cool and…
In our fame-obsessed culture, people who dodge the spotlight are so rare, they almost seem deviant. We’re drawn to them…
In an ideal world, I would reread all of the books I consumed during my formative years in high school.…