Apple Won’t Let Facebook Inform Users About App Store Fees
Earlier this month, Facebook launched a new feature for paid online events that allowed businesses to host and charge for virtual cooking lessons, workout sessions, and...
Josh Funk Shares the Short & Sweet Trick to Creating Anthropomorphic Picture Book Characters (Even Though the Title of This Post Is Far from Short & Sweet)…PLUS a Giveaway!
Tara: Well, howdy, Mr. Funk! Josh: Hiya, Tara! Thanks for having me back to talk about SHORT & SWEET, the fourth book in the Lady Pancake...
“Breasts and Eggs” Grapples with the Weird Mess of Women’s Bodies
Though you’ve probably only learned Mieko Kawakami’s name recently, with the release of Breasts and Eggs from renowned indie press Europa Editions, she’s been a well-known...
10 Short Stories About Women’s Transformations
The Little Mermaid sacrifices her tail for a human soul. The Navajo Changing Woman grows old and is reborn with the seasons. The nymph Daphne becomes...
6 British YA Authors of Color for Your To-Be-Read List
Over the years – especially recent ones – there have been many necessary conversations about the importance of increased representation in the U.S. publishing industry. Readers...
5 Books To Get Your Buddhism Through Poetry
According to Dictionary.com, Buddhism is “a religion […] holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering...
Books With Hilarious Titles (That Are Very Serious In Context)
Sometimes you know you shouldn’t laugh, but you do it anyway. Sometimes you don’t know you shouldn’t laugh, and are then embarrassed when you do because...
From Mythic Maps to 1001 Nights: 9 of Twitter’s Delightful Lit Bots
There are a lot of bots. In 2018, a study estimated that bots post around 2/3rds of the links on Twitter. In 2019, a study suggested...
Donating Books During COVID-19
With all acknowledgement of my privilege, I must say that the COVID-related cancellation that hit me the hardest was my town library’s annual book sale. This...
Comics for People With Anxiety
Anxiety is bad enough in the best of times—which these clearly are not—and stress about meeting arbitrary reading goals or not having the energy to crack...
