Author and editor Caroline Zancan on doing both at the same time
Writing a novel is hard work, especially when it’s your first. It can take years to write and rewrite, workshop and rework, have a crisis of confidence and keep going… Read more »
Little Free Libraries robbed, philosophical questions raised
How can one steal what cannot be stolen? As we do in all matters of the seemingly profound and pseudo-intellectual, we look to Nebraska, where several Lincoln-area Little Free Libraries… Read more »
Is George R.R. Martin going to adapt himself?
“How many children did Scarlett O’Hara have?” George R.R. Martin asks of the Gone With the Wind protagonist. “Three, in the novel. One, in the movie. None, in real life:… Read more »
Remembering Christopher Morley, writer and reader
Christopher Morley published his first novel, Parnassus on Wheels, about Roger Mifflin and his fanciful travelling bookselling cart, in 1917. Two years later, Morley brought Mifflin back in The Haunted… Read more »
NSA Publishes Children’s Coloring Book
You know they’ve been monitoring you. Your phone calls, your emails, your search history. Your digital footprint is not private, and from it, spying eyes can piece together even more… Read more »
Who’s Afraid of Ronda Rousey? (Walmart. Walmart is.)
I’m not scared of Ronda Rousey, and neither should you be. It makes sense why you might: she happens to have risen to international prominence as the most dangerous woman… Read more »
The educational limitations of watching someone write
You’re going to judge this article on the caliber of the writing presented to you—all of it, beginning to end. You’ll likely form an opinion incrementally, word by word, sentence… Read more »
Book adaptation too popular for fair trial
On February 2, 2013, former marine Eddie Ray Routh shot and killed Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield at a gun range in Erath County, Texas. Routh’s trial on capital murder… Read more »
The Imitation Game and the complicated byproducts of adaptation
Graham Moore’s script for The Imitation Game was always supposed to win awards. His adaptation of Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges placed first on the Black List of… Read more »
Pharrell begins authorial career with four-book deal
Pharrell Williams has done plenty enough to qualify for jack-of-all-trades status. Pop culture-wise, he’s a modern-day Renaissance man: rapper, producer, TV host, multimedia artist, clothing designer, ostentatious hat stan, ageless… Read more »