Put on your leather jacket and turn up the Death Cab for Cutie – The O.C. is back in a big way, celebrating its 20th anniversary this month, and a behind-the-scenes book, Welcome to the O.C.: The Oral History, coming in November. Grab a bagel and settle in with Captain Oats to find out what we think all […]
Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend. –Bill Waterson A best friend is one person in your life who can tell you the truth, without malice or ego. Any time or place, regardless of a messy past, your best friend is your present, and if you’re lucky, your future. Years […]
Shelf Improvement is a semi-monthly column highlighting three books guaranteed to improve both your library and your life. From literary fiction, young adult, and humor, to spirituality, autobiography, and more, no genre is off limits. The only requirement of the selections featured here is they must be transformative and page-turning. If you’re hoping to build a better bookshelf, […]
The difficulty level of writing a novel varies depending on who you ask, and when. On the one hand, you have people who’ve labored for decades to write a single novel. On the other, there are those adventurous souls who gather online every year to write a novel in 30 days. And then there are the authors […]
It’s election season! Yes, still. And now that the field of candidates has narrowed, perhaps you’re mourning the loss of slogans like “Jeb!”—that exclamation point was everything. But we’ve still got some gems in the running—like the ominous “A Political Revolution is Coming” (Bernie Sanders), the demanding “Make America Great Again!” (Donald Trump), the don’t-you-know-who-I-am? “Hillary […]
