It's a rough week in entertainment for the cult wonders. Today, Hawaii state (and, dare I say, national) treasure...

I love people who think of writing as a cute little hobby. “Oh, that’s fun,” they’ll say. “What a stress reliever!

I love comics, and I love food, but I never really expected to see them meaningfully combined. In other words, I grossly...

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

On the one hand, there are times (say, perhaps, every time certain mid-1990s musicians have yet another new posthumous...

Upon reading this New...

Between elaborate pyramids and Viking ships set ablaze, funerals back in the olden days were a sight to behold. Now...

Kites are supposed to be relaxing, right? You get a little running start, let out some string, and then use "kite...

Advertising: it’s the second-oldest profession. (Circa when the first-ever prostitute placed her first-ever Paleolithic...

This story is not about Roy Orbison wrapped in Clingfilm. This story is not even really about stories about...

Oh god. They’ve finally gone and done...

A small court case was decided this week. It's not some kind of landmark verdict or anything, but it's definitely...

Or some of them don’t, anyway. And despite the fact that a great deal of...

Oh, good lord. I come home after a hard day of sleeping in and eating bagels and watching National Geographic turtle...

When I was around nine years old, I somehow got it in me to devour every Gary Paulsen novel that I could get my little...

Sometimes the stories you find lead to other stories, and today every wall I run into has Gabriel Garcia Marquez written...

Given what the general idea of “celebrity” seems to indicate for the most part these days, it comes across as strange...

So here's a nice little story for the morning:

I am writing this article from scenic Laptop-upon-Bed (because it's...

Last night, as I set down a particularly satisfying Danielle Steel novel to mix a little more juice in with my gin,...