
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…
You can’t read music. Okay, maybe you can read music, in the sense that you can look at sheet music…
Most of the time, reading a novel is pretty straightforward. Step one: pick up book. Step two: open book. Step three: read,…
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If you’ve been conscious at any time in the last century or so, you’re familiar with private detective tropes: the…
There’s no TV show quite as quoted or as quotable as The Simpsons, the evergreen Fox animated sitcom that’s been on…
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…
Debut novels are often intimate in theme, small in scope, and under-read. When big, sprawling books seem to drop from…