Josh Hanagarne is a public librarian in Salt Lake City and spends his time at work trying to convince people that Nicholas Sparks is not a genre of one. He also knows how to tie a bow tie. Follow him on twitter: @joshhanagarne
While we at the Riot are taking this lovely summer week off to rest (translation: read by the pool/ocean/on our ...
For Christmas my (now) seven-year-old son received the book It Was A Dark And Silly Night, a compendium of original comics from ...
My history with Joyce’s Ulysses has been, until late, antagonistic and unpleasant. I described some of the experience in my post about ...
I grew up in a maniacally pro-reading home, but it was also a conservative Mormon household. I tried to be ...
Like just about everyone, I was saddened to hear of Robin Williams’s death. As someone who has been treated for ...
Captain Ahab’s last words are among my favorite in all of literature. Most of us will probably shuffle off this ...
“This is the non-fiction floor, right?” “Yep.” (I work at a public library). What comes next is often predictable. “Great. ...
For three wonderful years, my grandma Hanagarne lived in the house next to mine. She was a sweet woman who ...
The Publishers Weekly blog ran a piece by Gabe Habash entitled Every World I Learned From ‘Infinite Jest‘. If you’re familiar with ...
I named the group “What Not To Read.” The rules were simple. Each member of the book club (this was ...