Barnes & Noble is an iconic bookstore to many of us, with the dark wood paneling, beige wallpaper adorned with vine patterns, deep green accents, artwork of ...

I imagine everyone in this bookstore casting knowing glances at one another, not losing sight of the irony that the online bookstore people hold responsible ...

With the debut reading of my novel taking place in Montclair, NJ, I found myself exploring the town as I put some posters up (I'll share my exciting news abo...

"'Oh, these Denver doldrums!' yelled Carlo to the sky." - Jack Kerouac, On the Road Now wasn't the time for you to be traversing unknown western locales. You...

In July 2016, we stayed in the dorms at the University of Minnesota for a journalism conference. It's a beautiful campus in Minneapolis nestled along the Mis...

Welcome to the update to my blog! I've upgraded my website and connected my blog so that everything would be in one convenient location. All of the old posts...

This is a book journal I started back in 2009. I couldn't pass on the unique, natural look and feel of the lokta Paper from Nepal. I thought it would make a ...

"Instead of a woman warrior with a sword, I could create one with a pen who would be just as dramatic." - Maxine Hong Kingston From Drawings to Words Across ...

Witold Gombrowicz: Trans-Atlantyk Witold Gombrowicz’s novels are chock full of absurdity, so perhaps it’s natural that we find some hilarious moments thrown ...

Inspiring Oneself Octavia Butler's groundbreaking writing continues to captivate readers as they rethink humanity and society through the lens of her work. S...

Writing in the Bathtub & the Duality of Screenwriter-Novelist Dalton Trumbo liked to write while he was in the bathtub. I wouldn’t say that he wrote while he...

This blog makes it clear that I'm really into bookstores, and I've been to bookstores throughout North America and even parts of Europe. So I thought I'd sha...

“Sword? One supposes a mistake, since Kafka never saw the monument. Yet it grows increasingly clear that Karl has landed in a nightmarish new world where e...

The American Writers' Museum's First Exhibit Features the legendary scroll manuscript of Kerouac's classic American novel. I first read On the Road by Jack K...

"My dream chronology is that the books finish first, and I do have a considerable lead over them," George R. R. Martin said in 2013, according to this articl...

Literary Tour of Chicago "The first museum of its kind in the nation!" From what I've read about the origins of the new American Writers Museum in Chicago, t...

Seattle is my kind of town—you can't go two blocks without stumbling upon a cool café or bookstore. And sometimes you think you found a bookstore, but it's ...

I originally posted this on Twitter, but if you weren't following along live, I thought it'd be easier to read it all listed out from beginning to end. A loo...

A mysterious scroll arrived one St. Patrick's Day. I unfurled it to see this: My wife was taking me on The Great New York City Bookstore Tour, having hand-s...

Some reflections on magical realism via Nikolai Gogol It would be easy to brush aside the absurd impossibilities of Nikolai Gogol’s “The Nose”as merely a dre...