November 2020

Walter Mosley will be the first African American writer to receive the prestigious 2020 Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. Mosley has...

During autumn in New Orleans, the nip in the air makes the chicory coffee more comforting and the shadows of the French Quarter a bit more...

I was working on my Haunted Riot post for this most wonderful time of the year and decided to include Swamp Thing on my list of...

To be a true crime obsessive in 2020 is to have ample options at your disposal. But My Favorite Murder, the podcast by Georgia Hardstark and...

Have a baby in your life? Want to ensure they showcase their literary style from the moment they need threads in their life? Enter: bookish baby...

I love doing deep dives into how books got to be the objects they are today. I have covered Why are books that shape? (a surprisingly...

When Adam Caspian reaches biokenretic puberty —a supernatural cellular explosion— his moral compass goes haywire, catapulting him into pessimism and misanthropy. Owing fate, Carly Wit moves...

Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web is sponsored by Oni Lion Forge Publishing Group. “Alicia Garza was...

You did it!  2020 is (almost) OVER. Here comes the big question: Whose words helped you sprint across the finish line?  In January, we’re continuing our...

Back on Feb. 29, the extra day in this year of years, I stayed up to watch Saturday Night Live and saw David Byrne’s remarkable performance of “Once...