Baseball is a team sport, commonly called “America’s national pastime.” It was allegedly created more than 100 years ago by Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York. This small town in the Empire State is home to the Baseball Hall of Fame Museum, a place dedicated to the best that ever played. Among the Hall of
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On Monday, October 14, the judges of the Booker Prize announced a shocking twist: the 2019 award will be shared by Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood (for The Testaments) and British author Bernadine Evaristo (for Girl, Woman, Other). In the 50 years since the Booker was established in 1959, the Prize has only been shared twice
The victim is often held accountable for the aggression that is the responsibility of the assaulter. When a woman is subjected to sexual violence, she is the one who is held at gunpoint. It’s needless to say that this is how patriarchy works: its entire structure is framed to discount atrocities imposed by men. Rape
Mary Shelley, author of the classic horror novel Frankenstein, is a goth icon. She wrote about the horrors of mankind, painted the grimmest of settings in her writing, and lived a life full of mystery and tragedy. While some may simply know her as the woman who wrote Frankenstein, there’s more to her story. Here
If you like to unwind by reading a good romance novel or watching one of those addicting home renovation shows, we have great news—you no longer have to choose between the two. There’s a whole sub-genre of books that bring both of your guilty pleasures into one entertaining combo: renovation romance. That’s right. If you
If you’re someone on book/writing Twitter, you might have come across a day filled with people sharing book pitches and tagging them #DVpit. So you might have a few questions, like: What is this DVpit? When is it? What happens during it? And why is it important? Created by agent Beth Phelan, DVpit is a
Maybe you saw the recent article on Instagram-famed Caroline Calloway and dug up your Instagram account to see what was up. Maybe you’re a huge fan of the app and spend a good amount of your day refreshing your feed and connecting with other users. And maybe you have watched the follower counts of Instagram
When Lerita Coleman, a 41-year-old single African-American psychology professor, learns she has only 18 months to live without a heart transplant, anxiety overwhelmed her. The daunting challenge of medical procedures, medications, and the unknowns of losing an organ that symbolized her core being haunted her. In desperation, she turned to her diseased heart for guidance
We were standing in line for the DreamWorks She-Ra and the Princesses of Power panel when my five-year-old daughter gasped. I turned around and saw She-Ra. Scorpia. Entrapta. They were each done up in some top-notch cosplay, so well done they could have stepped out of our television screen back home. Emily, done up in
For decades, the comic book was synonymous with superheroes and science fiction, but more off-beat stories have slowly gained readership, acclaim, and a comfortable seat at the table under the “indie” or “alternative” label, and the medium is better for it. Numerous artists and writers are responsible for the movement, one being Harvey Pekar. Born
William Shakespeare is one of the most read authors in the English language. “The Bard” was a British poet, actor, and playwright. Despite being such a big name in the world of literature, a lot of his personal life is still a mystery. Shakespeare’s works however, have been turned into movies and graphic novels. They
I’m a proud Midwesterner, and have loved to call Iowa my home for the past ten years. Iowa is full of lovely towns, both large and small, that have a locally owned independent bookstore on the main street or town square. We’re also a literary and arts hub, due to Iowa City, with its UNESCO
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Dregs, this is not a drill! Our favorite Grishaverse characters have officially come to life and my eyes are literal hearteyes right now. We got our first cast photo today and I cannot contain my excitement. In case you miraculously forgot, season 1 will have eight episodes, split evenly between the plots of Shadow and Bone
Are you a dog person? A cat person? Or are you a dragon person, like Anne McCaffrey’s valiant heroes who soar through the skies to battle the inexorable threadfall and don’t even have to burn down a city to make the point that they’re super powerful? Maybe you feel that you’re more of a talking