Culture

This Earth Day, we’re showing some extra love to libraries.

“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.” —Robert Graves

His oft-forgotten foray into playwriting that failed to take root.

Prolific, acclaimed, and multi-faceted: three commonly-used descriptors of Dan Wakefield that any writer would sell their soul to be described as. 

"What some may label ‘dark stories’ are usually the stories of people all around us." —Mary McGarry Morris

Don’t let a lack of a strategy stop you.

Read an excerpt from Iris Apfel’s memoir that is just as authentic and vivacious as she was.

The only thing as important as a good book is a safe place to store it. 

The National Book Award Winner was known for her sharp writing.

“I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.”―John Green, Looking for Alaska. 

When a literary master raves about a book, you read it.

There's more to Outlander than hot Scottish men. Not that we have a problem with hot Scots.

Ward off the bah humbugs with these amazing adaptations of Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol.

Five lucky entrants will win!

“Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don’t make merry myself at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry.” –Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol, pre-ghosts. 

We're giving away copies to five lucky winners!

Five lucky winners will receive an incredible prize pack of books.

The must-read novel is a meditation on storytelling and queer history.

It all had to start somewhere.

The Candide author was known to drink copious amounts of coffee.