Books The MLA Top 100: Jocks or Nerds
All books are for either Jocks or Nerds. Joey Stern takes on the MLA Top 100 Novels with this in mind.
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Books How To Tell If You’re In a Mary Gaitskill Book
Can you imagine?
Books A Chat About Diversity in Publishing
A literary agent and former book editor talks about publishing and what needs to change in light of Lee & Low's 2015 Diversity in Publishing Survey.
Books The Princess And The Pea, If The Pea Were A Small Piece Of Mild Criticism
It's a pea...ce of mild criticism. You get the joke.
Books “Where Is The Diversity In Publishing?”
Lee and Low's Diversity in Publishing 2015 report.
Books Writing With Friends: How It Works
Jilly Gagnon on the process of writing a book in collaboration with a friend (spoiler: it's hard and funny.)
Books In Defense of Ariadne Oliver
Suzanne Fischer on the great detective Mrs. Oliver might have been, had Agatha Christie not favored the rational sleuth over the intuitive and haphazard.
Books Classic Characters You May Not Remember From Children’s Literature
Let them back into your brain!
Books The Illegitimacy of Aragorn’s Claim to the Throne
The Toast's Middle-earth correspondent courts controversy as he explains why Aragorn's claim to the throne of Gondor was shaky at best.
Books Every Meal Pippi Longstocking Cooks In Pippi Longstocking
Pepparkakor are those little thin ones, right?
Books “Who Tells Your Story?”: Historical Fiction as Resistance
The process of reconstructing the past is fascinating, and that’s why I want to spend time working through its complexities and writing history myself. But if I honestly recall what drew me to reading about the past in the first place, it is fiction. Specifically, children’s historical fiction presented as the diaries of girls my age, living through various periods in Canadian and world history.
Books Reasons I Would Make An Excellent Fisher King And You Should Consider Me For The Position
Thanks for considering my application.
Books Every Time Heidi Eats Cheese In The Novel Heidi
Heidi is a book about the miraculous transformative power of dairy, and that's important in these dark times.
Books An Annotated Map Of Thomas Hardy’s Wessex
A comprehensive map of all the prominent Wessex locations featured in the works of Thomas Hardy.
Books “The Real Mr. Darcy”: A Literary Pilgrimage to the Jane Austen Centre
Constance Grady on the Jane Austen Centre and the Mr Darcy myth: "Popular culture has replaced Austen’s rude and awkward nerd with a dashing romantic hero."
