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Mount Rushmore: Stephen King Books
It wasn’t long ago that Stephen King was derided as a simple peddler of horror, spinning yarns of children with special powers or ghouls that take 1,000 pages to vanquish. After his success in the 1970s and 80s, starting with “Carrie,” King could have easily coasted, mailed it in, and written different versions of the […]
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Celebrate Black History Month with Black Buck
It’s Black History Month which means you should make the extra effort to shop at Black owned stores and restaurants, embrace Black culture, read books by Black authors, and in general support Black creators (in case you were wondering, this isn’t an arbitrary rule made up, it’s a rule the system we’re operating in established). […]
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What’s the Deal With Dune?
The second attempt at a Dune film has been, by pretty much all metrics, a resounding success. While the original 1984 version has something of a cult following (doesn’t everything Kyle MacLachlan makes?), this year’s is a bona fide hit. A cast full of trendy but accurate actor choices, a director used to tackling high […]
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Book Report: The Sinful Seven
Ever get just punched in the mouth by how awesome a book is? It happened to me, and it’s all Vox Media’s fault. They had the best sportswriters of a generation and they squandered them in the face of Covid. Not great for long term security of the writers who lost their gigs, but hugely […]
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5 On It: Thank God for Local Record Stores
I’ll admit it. I am a troglodyte in some respects. I will only read actual books made of paper. I don’t even really like to read the news online, preferring instead to read the newspaper (which could have something to do with the fact that I used to be a newspaper reporter, but I digress). […]
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The Best Books of 2018
For me, there’s a beautiful moment at the beginning of each new year where I look forward to and fantasize about the many books that I’ll encounter over the next twelve months. Then, of course, there’s the realization that for every one book I will read, there’s surely five more that I wanted to get […]
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The Year in Books So Far
Spring is a great time for the world of books. All the self-proclaimed “Best New Books” of 2018 have been ushered onto shelves in the post-Christmas push, and there’s hopeful anticipation for the books that will shape summer reading lists everywhere. In an effort to help sort through the publishing morass, I’ve put together a […]
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Embracing the Uncomfortable: The Case for Huck Finn
It takes a lot to get me worked up, but here we are.
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The Best Books of 2017
One of the best parts of quitting my job to be a stay-at-home dad is that I now have time to read for pleasure. As an English teacher, I’d get to read plenty, but it was always student papers. Not that those weren’t awesome. Some were. But it was a job. Now, though, I get […]
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Why it’s important to read books by POC
How old were you when you read a piece of literature by an author who wasn’t white? Was it intentional? Was it required for a class? Were you aware as you were reading it? Did you keep that in mind as you read through the pages, noticing and appreciating the different perspective the author brought […]
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