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We all thought memes were “just jokes.” Well, here are some memes that make solid points about some of the most important works

I was talking to my buddy the other day and he brought up how he would allow kids to write with their music on. He is a teacher.

As the rest of literature talks of bestsellers and other recent news, I want to talk about a book from a hundred years ago.

Tupac’s wisdom is the basis of Angie Thomas’ powerhouse of a young adult novel, The Hate U Give—that hate is insipient, that directing it to

Have you heard, your favorite author left Facebook? “But Stephen King is not my favorite!” Way to miss the point, wise guy.

At a Bennington Writing Seminars panel, I once heard author Josh Weil joke that he’d never made his agent a cent because he wrote novellas.

When I’m in love, I don’t want to write stories about love. I’m scared that admitting it out loud will be the force that slashes it in half.

Darcy and Elizabeth. Romeo and Juliet. Cathy and Heathcliff. Jane and Rochester. These famous literary couples get all the attention,

I hate Valentine’s Day. The wordsmith in me can’t stand the loved filled, red holiday. You know the part of me that talks of dead writers,

He’s a whiny, scrawny adolescent. He has anger issues. He’s “the Chosen One.” And yet, Harry Potter just might be the best character

The phrase “writing is rewriting” has been uttered by the lips of a multitude of writers. Nonwriters do not know this.

There is an unanswered, difficult question that all readers must face in their literary life.

I know a book is meaningful to me when I can remember precisely where I was when I first read it

Did you know in 1919 a woman was running the country? I did not know this until a year ago.

The new year, 2020, is here. Let us all look back on the past and think of what could have been.

“I’m basically going to Bennington so I can stalk Amy Hempel and try to become her,”

Jane Austen? The best author of all time? Really? Don’t worry, our favorite Regency authroress is as timeless as they come

There is nothing like timing. I came up with a great Christmas post for you to read.

I’m gonna cheat for this question of who is the best character ever. That’s right.

Woolf fiction had a free-flow style that broke all the rules. I would have loved to have been taught about her life and writing...