Some books are pure fun, their thrills basic and comprehensible, like a hot dog. Some are more complicated, subtle, and challenging, like a fine wine. It’s perfectly natural sometimes to choose a simple read over something that will require a highlighter and some serious Google skills, but if you’ve been avoiding some challenging authors, now’s […]
You don’t have to live in a far-future dystopia to understand that corporations, those polished mechanisms of capitalism, have the capacity for evil, but it’s a lot more fun when we can imagine them committing truly outlandish sci-fi atrocities, rather than the everyday mundane bad decisions that add up to financial and environmental disaster on […]
You can’t read music. Okay, maybe you can read music, in the sense that you can look at sheet music or a score and your use your brain to translate that into what the song would sound like if played on instruments. But you can’t read music—as in, you can’t write about a band and […]
If you tried to write a novel last month, you know how difficult it can be. Just finishing a book—no matter how long it takes you—is quite an achievement, let alone in one month. In fact, chances are pretty good that by the end of National Novel Writing Month, many of you fell short, and you closed out the […]
