Jack Kerouac died in 1969, the first of the major Beat writers to go by a long shot. Not that it's stopped people...

I love Ray Bradbury. Love. I celebrate the guy's entire catalog.

So hearing from him is always a real treat,...

People are always saying "I don't read books." Too often, the problem is reading too many of the wrong books,...

There's some breaking news over at Scientific American, and it's pretty startling: apparently the results yielded...

There's this old axiom that "you get what you pay for," and it's admittedly true at some level: there's no point in...

Books cost less to feed and take up less space than your average orphan, and in an ideal world they would never be...

What is the deal with Christian Fundamentalists and their passion for robotics and giant dioramas all of a sudden?

Dinosaurs and creation theory
live together in perfect harmony,
side by side on my laptop's keyboard;
Oh, Lord,...

Hey, remember that episode of Saved by the Bell where Jessie Spano gets hooked on dastardly...

So here's a story that's blowing up the literature blogosphere right now: it seems the powers-that-be at publishing...

People are always saying "I don't read books." Too often, the problem is reading too many of the wrong...

What the hell is up with midwestern cops this week? First they steal...

Ahh, the Westboro Baptist Church -- everyone's favorite chromosomally-challenged Christian group. You may know them...

In the summer of 1917, in a little town in Portugal, the Virgin Mary allegedly appeared to three shepherd children...