Quote for Today: T. C. Boyle
I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: literature is only something you get at school as an assignment. …
The First Annual Late Summer Reading List
Looking for something to do with the rest of your summer? Here are twelve books to help pass the time. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary …
Quote for Today: Rick Riordan
I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but …
Quote for Today: Jean Cocteau
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and …
Quote for Today: Doris Lessing
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to …