Category Archives: On Reading

In Luke Mogelson’s debut collection, “These Heroic, Happy Dead,” we experience the raw, unflinching lives of war veterans through an empathetic lens.

Amazon is the worldwide leader in online retail. Is its new move to physical bookstores a good thing?

There’s a new biopic about J.D. Salinger’s life, and he wouldn’t be pleased about it.

The physical book seemed to be dying. But after years of physical book sales decreasing and ebook sales increasing, have the tides finally turned?

As the world goes digital, our obsession with studying metrics grows, whether it’s actually useful or not. But please, keep the metrics out of literature.

How do you best bring a bestselling memoir to the big screen? Assemble an all-star cast including Woody Harrelson, Brie Larson and Naomi Watts.

Philipp Meyer made his name known in the literary world with the release of his 2013 epic The Son. But that’s not what I’m here to write about, because there is another book by Meyer that is similarly exceptional: American Rust.

Jim Harrison was one of the most gritty, honest writers the literary world has even seen. It was writers like him that most inspired me to write.

In this age of increasing technology and constant access to various media channels, it seems there is never a shortage of information at our fingertips. This leads to people being more “social” online (a theory about which I am still skeptical, but that’s for another day). And then, inevitably, the best quotes start flowing. TheyContinue reading “14 Best Quotes By Authors About Writing”

Remember that book I proclaimed should be considered a Great American Novel? Philipp Meyer’s The Son? Well, it is now a TV show—premiering this Saturday night on AMC. When it was first announced that they were making the book into a TV show, I was a little hesitant. Firstly, everyone knows the book is alwaysContinue reading “From page to screen: Philipp Meyer’s “The Son””

There is a certain degree of mystery in every novel. What’s most impressive is when the plot surfaces, the reader gets a sense of the direction of the story, yet every page is as important as the next and you cannot seem to stop turning them. That’s what it’s like reading Daniel Magariel’s One of the Boys.

The clash of the literary giants. Ernest Hemingway vs. William Faulkner. The real question is, who won this epic showdown?