Famous Literary Watering Holes Writers are tortured souls, that’s why they usually need some time away from the real world and go to bars. Well, that’s their story, anyhow. Anyway,…Continue readingAuthors and bars
A story about the wives of seldom-home whalers and their dildos, aka “he’s-at-homes” “On Nantucket, 80-year-old Connie Congdon and I sat in her living room looking at the 120-year-old plaster…Continue readingA Dildo in Nantucket
Words of love that don’t have an English equivalent Emma Block has created a series of drawings to showcase a variety of words from across the world that say things…Continue readingzhi zi zhi shou, yu zi xte lao
Vending machines for short stories(Photo: AFP) It is now possible to read stories that can be consumed in however much time you’ve got to kill. The ‘three minute’ format, for…Continue readingFree stories?
The Phrase Finder 1,800 English phrases, sayings, idioms and expressions, with their meanings and origins explained. It includes Famous Last Words. For example: The last words of John Sedgwick, a…Continue readingHe said WHAT?
Sometimes I will pick up a book in a bookstore and the first thing I see inside will do something visceral enough for me to buy it on the spot.…Continue readingOn Roots and Roads
18 Things Every Book Lover Can Relate To All 18 Pulptastic gifs HERE ~~~~~ Ten books that changed the world From Euclid’s Elements to Freud’s Interpretation of Dream, The Guardian…Continue readingbooks Books BOOKS!
She sees music, in color, and then she paints it. Until artist Melissa S. McCracken was 15, she thought everyone constantly saw colors like she did – in books, math…Continue readingWhat color is ‘C’?
Fictional while female; The rape culture in fiction I was once involved as a working pro in a workshop for beginning writers where one of the participants turned in a…Continue readingWhy is it always rape?