Tag Archives: books

The Surprising Legacy of Choose Your Own Adventure Books

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Patrick Wensink

How Choose Your Own Adventure books have shaped current culture. Patrick Wensink uncovers multiple endings. Continue reading →

Posted in Literature | Tagged books, Choose Your Own Adventure, Fox, Happy Jawbone Family Band, Jeff Burk, Shakespeare | 3,239 Comments

Book. Band. Beverage.

Posted on January 2, 2014 by Sean Beaudoin

What are the thirty things that need to be paired together, in one master curatorial stroke, in order for you to survive 2014? Continue reading →

Posted in Food and Drink, Literature, Music | Tagged a sensible life outlook, absinthe, bands, beverages, books, death grips, diet, exersize, new years day, psychedelic furs, Zima, zz top | 4 Comments

The Horrors of Self-Promotion

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Sean Beaudoin

Naked author Polaroids. Live! Nude! Fully exposed! Please tip your server. Continue reading →

Posted in Literature | Tagged authors, books, dead, drunk, ennui, famous, growler, john grisham, law school, literature, Mariah Carey, marketing, mortification, promotion, publishing, punk, rich, Sean Beaudoin, The Black keys, The Infects, Wise Young Fool, Young Adult | 56 Comments

Point/Counterpoint: Sean Beaudoin vs. Lenore Zion

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Sean Beaudoin

Take a front row seat for this exciting, no-holds-barred game of style and wit, in which eight topics of the day are parsed, thrust, and parried as you listen to the intellectual steel clang! Continue reading →

Posted in Point/Counterpoint | Tagged Angelina Jolie, books, Jack and Diane, Lenore Zion, Mitt Romney, Morgan Freeman, Motorcycles, Sean Beaudoin | 5 Comments

The Boy Who Loved Books

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Damian Barr

“Seemingly trivial but secretly significant moments sustained me through a dark decade growing up under Margaret Thatcher,” writes Damian Barr, “in a coal-mining village near Glasgow that was destroyed by her policies, in a family that was torn apart.” Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir | Tagged books, childhood, libraries, pleasure, Zadie Smith | Leave a comment

Shelf Love

Posted on January 27, 2013 by A Weeklings Special Feature

Restocking the stacks has never been this fun. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | Tagged arrangements, books, Bret Easton Ellis, Bryan Charles, can't do THIS on a Kindle, Celine, Diana Spechler, Donna Tartt, Elfriede Jelinek, Elizabeth Eslami, Francine Prose, fun with books, Ian McEwan, Jillian Lauren, Joe Queenan, Jonathan Tropper, Kate Zambreno, Lenore Zion, Malcolm Gladwell, Miranda July, Rachel McKibbens, Rick Moody, Shya Scanlon, sorting systems, stacks, Wesley Stace | Leave a comment

Can Dungeons & Dragons Help You Write Your Novel?

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Samuel Sattin

Some people consider D&D to be the pursuit of anti-social high schoolers and thirty-year-old virgins. Are they correct? This author argues that D&D didn’t only help him write his first novel. It gave him a methodology. Continue reading →

Posted in Popular Culture | Tagged Alignment, Antihero, books, Character, Creative Writing, Dungeons & Dragons, Ethics, MFA, Morality, novels, Ursula K. LeGuin | 7 Comments