Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Listen book lovers, we get it. Sometimes you want a book you can devour in a single day, maybe even a single evening. It’s May, the perfect time for picnics and quick reads—do you really want to have to close that book at the halfway mark, because the picnic is over and you’re totally out […]

In real life, I’m not much of a matchmaker. I can barely find people I like, let alone figure out who would pair well with my friends. It’s not that I don’t want to help anyone find love or friendship, just more like I’m not particularly good at it. That’s matchmaking in reality, of course. […]

Next week, Zeroes, by Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, and Deborah Biancotti, hits bookstores everywhere. The first in a trilogy that reads like a mashup of X-Men: First Class with season one of Heroes (we’ll just pretend those other seasons don’t exist), it’s a thick book of superpowered excitement that’ll leave readers anxiously awaiting the next installments. It’s the first in […]

When it comes to television and film, subcultures don’t get treated very well by the mainstream from which they’ve broken away: TV Tropes has an entire page dedicated to “Subculture of the Week,” which points out how Bones, Law & Order, and other pop culture points have mischaracterized Goths, gamers, and everyone in between. Thank goodness for […]