Sometimes it’s fun to pick favorites out of arbitrary groupings. (No really, it is.) As such, I’ve made a list of 20 either/or statements (that are at least marginally literary), with the intention of seeing what your choices are. And that’s all you have to do — pick one thing … Read the rest
Rumor has it that Sylvester Stallone has all the pieces in place to go forward with a new film project — a movie about none other than Edgar Allan Poe. Apparently Stallone wrote the screenplay for this project back in the 70s and it has been his goal to … Read the rest
Earlier this evening, I disappeared into the LitKicks Laboratory (we have one, seriously) to test the website known as Storycode.com. The purpose of this site, as far as I can tell (I didn’t feel like reading the FAQ) is to give readers personalized recommendations based on their ratings of … Read the rest
Today Bowker, the U.S. ISBN agency, released a report that shows a 14% increase in the number of titles published for 2004. But who’s reading all these books? Lately, there has been a lot of talk about how many people are simply reading fewer books and last week the Book … Read the rest