Author: Jamie Rotante
It’s the spook-spookiest time of the year! Celebrate all-things Halloween literary style with these thirteen creepy poems! 1. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge “The Rime of the …
The phenomenon known as the “Boredom Boom” was first actualized in the 2000s, when multitudes of personal essays, books and think-pieces were penned, reacting to the shortened attention spans …
I speak from personal experience when I say this: a book can be a person with social anxiety’s best friend. Nothing eases the tension of being in a public …
Warren Zevon, known for his hit song “Werewolves of London,” was not just a prolific songwriter, he was also a well-known bibliophile. Over the course of his lifetime, Zevon …
Two years ago I hopped on a plane for the first time in my life and took an international flight. This wasn’t just for a whirlwind vacation; my fiance …
Looking for some fascinating beach reads this summer? Even when your head’s in the clouds you can keep your mind focused on winning with these strategy-centric books that everyone …
There’s only one person with the audacity to say that an original, intact Gutenberg Bible is “a baroque illustrated object that was absolutely not to my taste.” That person is …
A Western Slope school district official in Mesa County, CO has ordered librarians to stop circulating the popular Young Adult book Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, which recently inspired a Netflix …
When Aiden Fouhy was in the second grade, he raised bottle calves—very young orphaned calves that are bottle-fed because they’re too young to train—over the summer on his family’s ranch …
Books for Keeps (BFK) is a non-profit organization based in Athens, Georgia that works to improve children’s reading achievement by breaking the barriers related to the accessibility and appeal …
With new shows like Girlboss and 13 Reasons Why trending on Netflix, as well as a new season of Orange Is The New Black starting up next month, it looks like we’re entering …
Between the end of 2016 and the political climate so far in 2017, there has been a spike in classic dystopian book sales. George Orwell’s famous 1984 has become a …
Argentine artist Marta Minujín is set to open an art installation this year built from books that have been banned around the world. Minujín is a conceptual and performance artist who …
I’m a proofreader in my professional life, so I’m hyper-attuned to noticing pesky spelling and grammatical errors—I have to be or I’d be pretty lousy at my job. Unfortunately, that …
Ask any bibliophile and they’ll tell you that one of their favorite things about books is their scent—specifically the smell of old books. For many it’s the feelings of …
Once upon a time not long ago When people wore pajamas and lived life slow… So begins legendary rapper Slick Rick’s 1988 hit song Children’s Story. Now, the song which …
A group of 21 students in an English class at Boston College have developed Joycestick, a virtual reality game based on James Joyce’s Ulysses. It is believed by a …
The Hate U Give is the debut young-adult novel from author Angie Thomas. It explores race politics in America in a bold, shocking and—unfortunately—highly relatable way. When Ms. Thomas …
In 1965, after failing a creative writing class in her junior year of high school, sixteen-year-old Susan Eloise Hinton, unsatisfied with the literature that was being written for young …
Great news for the literary world on this International Women’s Day: The University of Warwick in the United Kingdom has announced that it is establishing an annual £1000 (exactly $1216.20 USD) …
