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How Do You Like Them (Literary) Apples, Part 1: The Men

After a good decade of living in Los Angeles I had the pleasure of having almost everyone I know work ...

An Aural Fixation: Fun With Words That Sound The Same

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: What’s black and white and red all over? If you said “newspaper,” congratulations—you ...

Flowchart Fridays: Date Night for Literary Men

Last week, when I posted a few little flowcharts about what YA heroines might do in a crisis, people seemed ...

Literary Names I Would Never Give My Children

I suspect we all have a list of names we would never give our children, even though they sound unobjectionable ...

Breaking Down the (Fan) Base: Who Really Claims These Famous Novels as Favorites?

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Fake Plots of Cormac McCarthy’s THE COUNSELOR

In a bit of a surprise, Cormac McCarthy recently sold an original screenplay to the same production company that made ...

I Like Big Books and I Cannot Lie

Each book I’ve picked up in the past couple of months has been a bit chunkier, and the song I ...

On Breaking Spines

I have a problem. I think many of you share it. It usually arises after sustained exposure to books and ...

What Would *Insert YA Heroine Here* Do?

Sometimes, when faced with difficult real life situations, I find myself wondering how my favourite young adult heroines would feel ...

Top 5 Miscast Literary Roles

Have you seen David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo yet?  (If not, and if you haven’t read the ...