My 2021 Reading List

I didn't quite make it to 52 books in the year, which feels like the gold standard for those of us who keep track of what we've read in a...

Famous First Lines

My family has always been rabidly enthusiastic about trivia. Some of my earliest memories are of listening to Jeopardy! during dinner,...

What is genre fiction? And why it won't earn you a Pulitzer

You've typed "The End" on your masterpiece and are already mentally composing your acceptance speech for a Pulitzer. You describe the end...

What was invented when? All about phones

What do you call that gizmo you carry around with you 24/7? You probably call it a "phone" even though that's probably not how you use it...

A Room of One's Own

Even if you haven't read the Virginia Woolf essay, you are probably familiar with this concept (particularly if you are a woman). In it,...

Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler

I'm not sure what I expected when I picked this up but it wasn't quite this. This is the story of a young woman from the near future who...

What was invented when? Ten technologies and their release dates

Presumably your apocalypse is going to render obsolete most if not all technology, but you still don't want your 80s teen protagonist...

Z is for Zachariah, by Robert C. O'brien

I don't often throw books across the room when I'm finished with them - I love books! - but this one went skidding across the carpet as...

How does your world end? Common causes of fictional apocalypses (and examples)

Writers have been creating end-of-times scenarios for centuries. Even Noah and his ark is a tale about a watery apocalypse survived only...

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