#Newsletter 1

Confessions of a Booker Prize Judge

Stuart Kelly, Booker Prize judge, reveals the behind the scenes process that led to Eleanor Catton winning the 2013 prize for The Luminaries

The Sweetest Sweets: Bookish Wedding Cakes

Would you ever choose a bookish wedding cake for your own big day? Take a look at these fabulous literary cakes before you answer.

10 Fabulous TV Author Cameos

Castle | Stephen J. Cannell, Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, & James Patterson In season three, episode twenty-one (“The Dead Pool”) ...

Romance and the Problems with “By Women, For Women, About Women”

Why describing romance novels as the only books by, for, and about women is problematic.

A Literary Tour Of Oxford, Mississippi

I have been an on again/off again resident of Oxford, Mississippi for 12 years, and the number of visitors I ...

5 Books to Watch for in November

The season of Big Fall Books is in full swing, and I had a heck of a time narrowing down this ...

Ender’s Game. Sigh.

Okay, so I don’t know how many of you read the awful, awful Ender in Exile, but I did. And ...

Experiments in New Adult Fiction

Man, you guys. I recently read some crazy-depressing New Adult (since I, perpetually behind the times, only this year learned ...

Are These the 13 Most Underrated Books?

In our latest reader poll, we asked you to share your picks for the most underrated books. We know it’s a ...

A Road Trip to Recover My Reading Life

According to the all-knowing Google Maps, I drove approximately 2040 miles last week from my doorstep in Texas, to my ...