When you hit the road on the way to your summer vacation destination, perhaps you and your family plan to listen to an engrossing audiobook. But, just as in-flight magazines eschew printing any articles about air travel gone awry, you might want to avoid listening to tales in which road trips become harrowing adventures, such as those […]
The road is magic in American culture, simultaneously the escape route from and solution to our problems, so it’s unsurprising that the “road trip novel” is typically thought of as a 20th and 21st century phenomenon; ancient travelogues The Canterbury Tales aren’t really road trips in the modern sense, as they are either not focused on the trip […]
One of the best parts of a bookseller’s gig is championing writers that haven’t yet become household names—and one of the ways we do that here at B&N is with our Discover Great New Writers program, and our annual Discover Awards. The Discover selection committee is made up of booksellers from around the country who […]