Giancarlo Esposito Discusses His Greatest Acting Challenge Yet: A Cartoon Supervillain
Giancarlo Esposito is a well respected actor. He played Gus Fring on Breaking Bad. He filled up the screen as Moff Gideon on The Mandalorian. But...
Submerging Myself In Poetry For The Sealey Challenge
This August marked the fourth year of The Sealey Challenge and my first time completing it. Named by Dante Micheaux for poet Nicole Sealey in 2017,...
12 New Memoirs Written by Asian Authors
While the year 2020 has brought many of us a lot of pain and misfortune, it has delivered one thing I’ve been so glad to see:...
5 Great Speculative Fiction Anthologies of 2020
2020 hasn’t given us very much to be happy about. But it has at least been a stellar year for book releases. And among them have...
Comics A-Z: The Arts from Politics to Toriten
It’s been a minute since I wrapped up Heroes A–Z and I figured it was time to start another adventure. This time we’ll go alphabetically through...
Historical Nonfiction: 30 of the Best Books in the Genre
Historical nonfiction is so much more than the history books you read in school. These stories are well researched, thought provoking, and are just as riveting...
Struggling to Read During COVID? You’re Not Alone.
The pandemic of 2020 has been challenging for people from all walks of life and has uprooted nearly everyone’s regular schedules in ways big and small....
The Futura Is Now: Why YA Cover Design Looks The Way It Does
YA cover design is my jam. Since beginning my journey into this category of books close to 15 years ago—not even counting my own teen experience...
8 Books Where Villains Turn Into Heroes
Gotham City is torn apart by the war between Batman and the Joker. Ready to take it to the next level, The Joker recruits the flaming...
9 of the Best Children’s Books About Libraries and Librarians
Kingdoms have begun to fall to a doomsday cult, the magical Graced are being persecuted, and an ancient power threatens to break free. But with the...
