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Late to the Party: A Harry Potter Experience

I don’t read a lot of young adult literature. (This is a matter a personal taste- it’s not a value ...

A Topic for Brunch: The Portmanteau

Brunch: It’s not breakfast, it’s not lunch; it’s neither, and both. I’m not talking about what you order—that’s totally up ...

7 Great Books THE NEW YORK TIMES PANNED

A recent interest in book reviews as a genre led me to Books of the Century:  A Hundred Years of ...

Adventures in Rereading

There is a moment when you’re reading that I’m sure you’ll recognize: when everything starts to come together and you ...

The Existential Dread of Mega-Bookstores

There’s a peculiar, soul-sickening dread that lurks in mega-bookstores. At first, an eager reader can bliss out at the rows ...

Resolved: The “Nym Wars”

This is just further proof that the solution to all of the world’s problems can be found in fiction. On ...

How Do You Survive in a Bookstore-less Town?

How do you survive in a town without a dedicated bookstore? That’s the dilemma I find myself in now and I’m ...

Can We Take Fiction Too Seriously?

  I am, I admit, a Potterhead. I love the entire Potter empire (books, movies, what-have-you). I’m not as hard-core ...

Welcome to the Library of Fictional Fiction

The Library of Fictional Fiction: a place populated with books that only exist in works of fiction. Books within books. Untamed by the Dewey decimal system.

GENRE KRYPTONITE: Turn-of-the-Century NYC Novels

GENRE KRYPTONITE is a regular feature about genres we have an inexplicable weak spot for. Check out previous entries here. ...