Fictional Musicians We Wish Were Real
You can’t read music. Okay, maybe you can read music, in the sense that you can look at sheet music…
Thomas Pynchon
5 Books that Come with a Required Reading List
Most of the time, reading a novel is pretty straightforward. Step one: pick up book. Step two: open book. Step three: read,…
10 Books You Should Finally Read in 2015
Life’s not getting any easier—and neither are these books. While there’s nothing wrong with reading a brisk spy novel or…
5 Reasons Only Paul Thomas Anderson Could’ve Adapted Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice
The novels of Thomas Pynchon have generally been considered unfilmable. Dense, chaotic, cerebral—Pynchon’s oeuvre is composed of novels that don’t…
5 Oddball Detective Books That Are Made of Awesome
If you’ve been conscious at any time in the last century or so, you’re familiar with private detective tropes: the…
The Top 5 Author Cameos on The Simpsons
There’s no TV show quite as quoted or as quotable as The Simpsons, the evergreen Fox animated sitcom that’s been on…
15 Epic Epigraphs
Epigraphs are pretty versatile little literary devices. They can be the uncensored mouthpiece of an author. They are, at times, like an outside source brought in…
Our Favorite Big, Ambitious Debut Novels
Debut novels are often intimate in theme, small in scope, and under-read. When big, sprawling books seem to drop from…