Tag: fiction
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Reading a 1775 Cinderella Story
It’s a small book, just a smidge larger than my palm, and more rectangular. The cover was once maybe green, maybe brown, but has faded and molted in a way that looks almost mossy. It is bound together with twine woven up and down the spine. I’m at the Smathers Library on the University of…
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Crying in the Archives: “Hid in the Heart” and a Diary of Grief
I’ve spent three weeks of my summer in rainy, rainy, rainy (yes, it has rained every single day) Gainesville, Florida as the 2025 ALSC Bechtel Fellow, where I’ve been studying the papers of Margaret Sidney, a 19th century children’s novelist best known for The Five Little Peppers series. While I’ve been reading the books, my…
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5 Ted Talks About Literature Everyone Should Watch
I love Ted Talks.
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Author Spotlight: Colson Whitehead
I discovered Colson Whitehead when he exploded as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
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Author Spotlight: Andrew Sean Greer
Andrew Sean Greer won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for his novel, Less, but it wasn’t his debut novel.
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14 Books By Professors I Had in College
In honor of Back to School time and the fact that I’m low on ideas right now, here’s a list of books by professors I had during my undergraduate career at Yale.
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Sourdough
Does your bread sing when it’s cooking and smell like bananas and maybe have a magical history and a mind of its own? Oh, well the bread in Sourdough by Robin Sloan does all of that
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Heads of the Colored People
Heads of the Colored People is a short story collection by Nafissa Thompson-Spires that you must had to your TBR pile right now.
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October Releases
Check out these big October book releases
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Short Story Collections
Short stories galore! Check out the little works from some of your favorite authors.
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September Releases
Be still my book loving heart. September is going to be the death of me and my wallet. There are so many amazing books I want to read coming out this month, all of them of course going to have to take a back-burner to my course load as my senior year of college begins…
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Norse Mythology Inspired Literature
I spent three hours a week during my junior spring of college learning about Norse mythology, the ins and outs of gods and goddesses and the crazy antics they get up to up in Asgard. In the middle of that semester was when Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman came out, and we even discussed his…
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