“I thought about the difference between my life and my life online.” Careers oftentimes define a great deal of our identity, and Joshua Ferris is a writer who tackles the workplace perfectly. His masterful debut novel, Then We ...

This past weekend was the pinnacle of patriotism throughout our country. America’s Fourth of July is the annual call to celebrate what it is that we cherish about living in the U.S.A., whether it be our freedom, our food, or ev...

“I gave up on ever trying to get ‘my way.’ I barely knew it existed.” The year was 2010 and a truly great graphic memoir exploring loss and acceptance caught fire in reading circles everywhere. That grand achievemen...

“So it’s 50 percent boredom and 49 percent normal terror, which is a general feeling that you might die at any second and that everybody in this country wants to kill you. Then, of course, there’s the 1 percent pure terro...

The textbooks are shelved. The desks are empty. The days are quiet. Yes, it’s that time of the year. School is out for summer! For all of us English teachers, it’s the time of the year when we separate ourselves from the classi...

“Dear Mr. Richard Gere” is how Matthew Quick’s second novel for adults, The Good Luck of Right Now, begins. It’s not a one-time hello to the famous actor; instead, Mr. Gere gets a salutation at the start of every chapter, or le...

e have a winner. Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch claimed this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. We sort of called it in our 2014 Pulitzer Prize Predictions post. It’s a choice that has many bibliophiles debating whether Tartt dese...