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"Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage" by Heather Havrilesky.

Column: ‘Foreverland’ is Heather Havrilesky’s new memoir on marriage, and it’s breaking peoples’ brains

March 19, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

There is apparently something about "Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage," Heather Havrilesky's funny, sweet, romantic, deeply honest new memoir, that is breaking peoples' brains. I say this because...

Column: Melville House founders talk about survival in the face of Amazon as the publisher celebrates 20th anniversary

March 12, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Back in 2002, Valerie Merians and Dennis Johnson were frustrated at what they felt was the Bush administration's rush into the war in Iraq, and to vent some of that...

Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher in a scene from the Amazon series "Reacher."

Column: ‘Station Eleven’ and ‘Reacher’ are TV adaptions of books on Biblioracle’s watch list

March 5, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Two of the most successful television adaptations of popular books I've ever experienced have been released in the last few months. I'm talking about "Station Eleven" on HBO Max, drawn...

Column: This 8-year-old author should inspire more people to tackle that unwritten book

February 26, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

When, despite my best efforts, people find out I'm a writer, many of them tell me that they have a good idea for a book they'd like to write one...

Reading a book in a bar? It became a Twitter topic.

Column: Reading a book at the bar doesn’t make you a loner. (Twitter agrees.)

February 19, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

On Twitter, there is something called the "main character," where each day someone unexpectedly becomes a locus of significant attention for a tweet with which a large group of people...

Column: ‘Actually funny’ books? Here are 10 worth a laugh out loud

February 12, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

I recently received a plea from a reader asking me to recommend some "actually funny" books. The plea was rooted in a desire to escape the despair and uncertainty of...

Column: From my first forays into Book TikTok, 5 things I’ve learned

February 5, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

One of my New Year's reading resolutions was to experience and try my best to understand also known as #BookTok on the short video streaming social media platform. I am...

Column: Speculative NFT mania crosses paths with the book world by way of ‘Dune’

January 29, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Previously, I had made a personal pledge to never learn anything about NFTs (non-fungible tokens), but two things happened recently to break that pledge and take a closer look. Thing...

Column: Some books we find life-changing, which started but didn’t end with ‘Bridge to Terabithia’

January 22, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Social media gets an often deserved bad rap for bringing out the worst in people by, you know, oversharing about personal problems, or promulgating conspiracy theories, or fomenting insurrection against...

Author Norman Mailer, age 80, in his Brooklyn Heights apartment, Jan. 28, 2003, in New York.

Column: Norman Mailer may not be well remembered, but no, he was not ‘canceled’

January 10, 2022 at 3:00 p.m.

I have something embarrassing to admit: I forgot about Norman Mailer. There was a time, maybe 30 or so years ago, when I would've said that "The Executioner's Song," Mailer's...

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