Explore the Largest Online Archive Exploring the Genius of Leonard da Vinci
We dare not speculate as to what Leonardo DaVinci would make of artificial intelligence. We are, however, fairly confident that…
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From The Archives: FUNNY WOMEN #61: My Imaginary Wet Hot American Summer
From the Archives: FUNNY WOMEN #61: My Imaginary Wet Hot American Summer Originally published at The Rumpus on August 17,…
On “Mission: Impossible” and Unaccountable Government
IN HIS FIRST full on-screen assignment as Ethan Hunt, way back in 1996, Tom Cruise didn’t fly a helicopter over…
The Land Remains | Molly Crabapple
I spent the end of May and the beginning of June in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem, first…
Perfect Picture Book Friday! My Teacher is a MONSTER! (No, I am not.) by Peter Brown
Susanna Leonard Hill has a feature on her blog called Perfect Picture Book Friday. It is a list of “perfect”…
Big Summer – Jennifer Weiner
Summary: Eight years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into…
126. A Season Most Unfair
A Season Most Unfair. J. Anderson Coats. 2023. 285 pages. [Source: Library] [Children’s Historical; MG Historical, Middle Ages] First sentence:…
Book Review: ‘The Exhibitionist,’ by Charlotte Mendelson
THE EXHIBITIONIST, by Charlotte Mendelson “I prefer stories about squalor,” J.D. Salinger’s Esmé said. Esmé would have gone nuts for…
Barnes & Noble Workers at Main Brooklyn Store Join Union
Barnes & Noble workers at the retail giant’s main Brooklyn location have voted to unionize after the company’s New York…
Oprah Named 2022 PEN/Faulkner Literary Champion
Posted on March 30, 2022 Oprah Winfrey has been named the PEN/Faulkner 2022 Literary Champion. Oprah is known for generating…
SHADOW GAMES review at Gravetapping
Ben Boulden at Gravetapping has a great review of the new edition of my novel Shadow Games. Here’s a small…
Twitter rips into Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘pretentious’ poetry – except it’s actually by Shelley | Poetry
“Rise like Lions after slumberIn unvanquishable number-Shake your chains to earth like dewWhich in sleep had fallen on youYe are…
Why Hasn’t the Pantheon’s Dome Collapsed?: How the Romans Engineered the Dome to Last 19 Centuries and Counting
In Rome, one doesn’t have to look terribly hard to find ancient buildings. But even in the Eternal City, not…
Rumpus Original Fiction: Fantasyland – The Rumpus.net
Rumpus Original Fiction: Fantasyland The spotlight belongs on Portia Control. For tonight’s final number, she takes the stage wearing the…
A Conversation with Regan Penaluna
PHILOSOPHY IS NOTORIOUSLY grisly toward women. Over cocktails one evening, professor-turned-journalist Regan Penaluna told me that during the oral examination…
The Land of Dust and Plastic | Aida Alami
In 1956 Juan Goytisolo, one of Spain’s most influential contemporary writers, took a bus to the eastern part of Almería,…
Perfect Picture Book Friday! How to Behave at a Tea Party by Madelyn Rosenberg
Susanna Leonard Hill has a feature on her blog called Perfect Picture Book Friday. It is a list of “perfect”…
It is time…
I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for summer break. Ashley’s kids have been out since the end of May…
A Death Greatly Exaggerated: Canada’s Thriving Small and Fine Press
I only learned recently that The University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book…
Becky’s Book Reviews: 120. Projekt 1065
Projekt 1065. Alan Gratz. 2016. 320 pages. [Source: Library] [Middle Grade, Young Adult Historical Fiction, World War II] First sentence:…
Reframing the West: New Fiction Makes Room for Voices Long Denied
Their eyes meet across a crowded street in 1870s Dodge City, Kan., the gunslinging bounty hunter and the impulsive rebel,…
Fall 2023 Children’s Announcements: Publishers A-E
Abbeville Legends of Major League Baseball by Craig Calcaterra (Oct. 3, $15.95, ISBN 978-0-7892-1473-7) compiles photo-filled profiles of28 retired baseball…