2026
The ones who follow find themselves somewhere they didn't expect.
It does not require a large leap of faith to assume Baldwin had some personal agenda behind the writing of "Going to Meet the Man."
It could be said Shakespeare's plays lend themselves to screen adaptation more readily than scripts from modern theater.
Sometimes the things which make us truly remarkable may be obvious to everyone but ourselves.
Hemingway's three-cushion shot and White's obscure clarity could be seen as extensions of the “show, don’t tell” advice often given to fiction writers.
But what is it worth to you?
The ancients told of glorious days when the non-billed platypi ruled.
What do you think about in the shower?
For the books you don’t want to lose twice.
The novel builds the genre’s typical coming-of-age theme into a narrative of broader scope and appeal.
Her sister had crocheted it, this green and orange thing, her lifeline to the outside.
Geoffrey Chaucer gave us both a snake oil salesman and a snake charmer in his Canterbury Tales.
We look. Maybe we linger. It feels like we've done something.
I could sit on that sofa right now.
I'll remember. It's something I say to myself all the time.
The other day, someone in the shop said I throw a lot of spaghetti at the wall.
A story takes up space, but it gives more than it takes.
A sidewalk and stairs outside make a highway. And I watch.
I play soundtracks in the store and listen to the reactions.Sometimes it turns into a game of naming that tune.
But every time I hit “save,” it felt off.
On Saturdays, people bring things to trade.
A man brought several games to our swap last weekend.Tickets in hand, he glanced at the rows of books around the shop."Maybe I should give some of them to my wife," he said.
There's usually at least one.