Sometimes I Feel Pretentious

abffe.org Banned Books Week and I are the same age.  That means that as long as I've been alive someone has been fighting censorship...

J.K. Rowling's new book A Casual Vacancy , billed as her first novel for adults, is out this week.  I was caught a little off-guard wh...

Satire is the first defense of the inept.  I don't mean that satirists are themselves inept; inste ad, I propose that whenever someo...

Salon.com I expected more from this book.  Maybe that was its downfall.  Written by G. Willow Wilson, Alif the Unseen treads a fine lin...

Publisher's Weekly just posted an article that describes a recently reported phenomenon in the Young Adult market.  Namely, that kids...

Violence rarely announces itself.  Matt Cave, as writer, and John Hillcoat, the director seemed to have taken that as a maxim as a truism....

Remember when you could buy a brand new book on your Kindle for less than $10?  If you don't that's because selling books for ch...