Who Keeps Your Secrets?
When you were younger, how did you handle your family’s secrets? Did you share them with others or keep them to yourself? Did you revel in...
Wake Up: The Censorship Has Been Alive Forever. It’s at Fever Pitch Today.
There are a lot of bad takes this week on the whys and hows of the growing firestorm of book challenges. I’m not going to link...
Who Was Gabriel García Márquez?
Nobel prize winner, filmmaker, journalist: Gabriel García Márquez had a long career and left behind a large legacy. His work in magical realism has influenced a...
8 Fictional Books About Writers and the Writing Life
If you’re participating in NaNoWriMo, you’ve probably discovered by now that finding a balance between writing and life can be challenging. Most writers have other things...
An Introduction to the Lyric Essay
Essays come in a bewildering variety of shapes and forms: they can be the five paragraph essays you wrote in school — maybe for or against...
How Is Immigrant Literature Dismantling White Feminism?
White feminism, with its exclusionary policies and parochial thought process, has not only exacerbated the condition of immigrant women of color but also has rendered them...
13 Teen-Authored Literary Journals Adults Should Read
If you’ve been keeping up with reading trends for more than a decade, you probably know that YA literature is all the rage — not only...
The Best Comics to Introduce to Your Baby First
If you have a child or have children in your family, it’s only natural to want to share things you love with them. This includes books,...
Ode To a Stethoscope: On Medical Poetry
In my college, which was known for its science programs, there was a divide between the science students and the humanities students. The science students seemed...
Holiday Bookmarks to Use This Season (and Next!)
Do you read seasonally? If you, like me, tend to lean heavily into reading during the cooler, darker months, do you also tend to swap around...
