Biblioracle: Can an android write a book? A new app gets scary close.
At some point every week, when I get a moment in between meeting the regular publishing deadlines that allow me to make a living, I tell myself that I really...
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Biblioracle: ‘Yes & Know’ books with ‘invisible ink’ were what kept kids quiet on car trips before iPhones
These days you hear a lot of kvetching about young kids and phones, concerns about screen time and the like. At the same time, rare is the parent that hasn't,...
Biblioracle: 8 great places to read this summer. Forget the beach, how about a backyard hammock?
The "beach read" category of books was invented out of thin air for marketing purposes a few decades ago, but that doesn't mean it's meaningless. The reason it's stuck around...
Biblioracle: What’s the opposite of comfort food books? These books embrace the strange and discomforting
A couple of weeks back I wrote about being drawn toward "comfort food" reads, books rooted in regular folks attempting to be decent to each other but running into trouble...
Biblioracle: If they didn’t already exist, public libraries would never be established in today’s America
Thank goodness public libraries already exist, because if they didn't, there's no way we'd ever be able to establish similar institutions in today's dis-United States of America. There are a...
Column: The Biblioracle turns to ‘literary comfort food’ when things go haywire
When the world appears to be going haywire — And when isn't it these days? — I turn to the kinds of books I think of as "literary comfort food."...
Column: Reading ‘In Praise of Good Bookstores,’ it’s hard not to feel both nostalgia and concern
It is hard to imagine a better audience for a book titled "In Praise of Good Bookstores" than me. That said, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" by Jeff Deutsch, currently...
Column: Keep your eye on ‘The Trees’: The Biblioracle gives odds for this year’s Pulitzer Prize winner
The proliferation of legal betting in the U.S. seems to know few restraints. On the average evening of sports watching I could literally place dozens of bets, not just on...
Column: The Biblioracle says there’s inspiration to be found in the lives (and memoirs) of comedians
I almost can't believe that I'm about to say what I'm about to say, but I believe it to be true. If you're looking for guidance on how to live...
Column: Biblioracle goes on a blind book date to shake things up
Sometimes as a reader it's important to shake things up a bit, and break yourself out of your usual patterns. By and large, I tend to gravitate to known entities,...