Literature

You might be taken aback by the noise when you enter a public library on a Thursday afternoon. Real human […]

No one, living or dead, has ever successfully read a book that is kept in a climate-controlled vault at Yale

When you walk into any Barnes & Noble, you’ll almost instantly notice the gold and silver foil stickers that are

The organizers of the International Booker Prize ceremony in London this past May revealed a series of numbers that caused

Almost all authors experience an uncomfortable realization at some point, usually between signing a contract and getting a finished copy

Most households have a number of monthly expenses that they no longer give much thought to. A free trial of

Fiction is the only way to arrive at a certain kind of knowledge. Not because nonfiction is false, but rather

There’s a moment every writer recognizes — sitting with a finished manuscript, or something close to it, and realizing they

Paying for something you already had causes a certain kind of annoyance. Most people, if pressed, would describe a library

There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that settles over debut authors about six weeks after their book goes live. The