The Minneapolis Detective Who Made Readers Forget Their Better Judgment
There’s a particular kind of reader who discovers John Sandford’s novels the way most people stumble into a long-running television […]
Cloudstreet and the Art of Writing a Place So Vividly It Becomes a Character
There’s a particular kind of literary experience that sneaks up on you. Not the kind where a novel announces its
The Hidden Resources Most Library Users Never Discover
Paying for something you already had causes a certain kind of annoyance. Most people, if pressed, would describe a library
How Selling a Book Became an Entirely Different Game – And Most Authors Aren’t Winning
There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that settles over debut authors about six weeks after their book goes live. The
Clare Leslie Hall Novel Proves That First Love Never Really Dies – It Just Waits
There’s a particular kind of novel that sneaks up on you. You think you know what it is — a
The Recession Novel: How Fear of the Economy Becomes Fiction That Actually Matters
Only when people are afraid do certain types of novels get written. The quieter kind, where the source of fear
From Solitary Habit to Social Ritual: The Reinvention of Reading
Imagine a Saturday morning in a coffee shop with handwritten menus and exposed brick. Four people sit at a corner
Why Some Books Get Massive Marketing Budgets
Walk into any Barnes & Noble on a Tuesday — new release day — and you’ll notice something before you
Why Modern Libraries Are More Important Than Ever
Something feels different when you walk into most public libraries these days, though it’s difficult to pinpoint exactly what. The