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Read it First: Classic Literature on Film
From the time we first learn to read, we are steered towards “the classics.” FromThe Velveteen Rabbit to War and Peace, these novels are touted as enlightening, world expanding, and, sometimes, enjoyable reads. But what, exactly, is a “classic” novel?
Interview With an Author: Carrie Vaughn
Carrie Vaughn is best known for her New York Times bestselling Kitty Norville series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty who hosts a talk radio show for the supernaturally disadvantaged.
Feels Like Home: "A Wanderer and Homeless Waif": Los Angeles’ Central Library - Part 2
This post is the second in a series of excerpts serializing the book Feels Like Home
Adults Only: Biographies of Children’s Authors
It is a good thing that the lives of children’s authors are not always reflected in the books they wrote. Some of the most enduring and well-loved of these books were written by people whose lives were not sugar and spice.
Interview with a Zine Maker: Eunsoo Jeong
Eunsoo Jeong is an artist, color designer, illustrator, animator living in Los Angeles. Koreangry is a comic/zine series based on her daily struggle as a Korean-American immigrant woman.
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-1958) was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose research was foundational to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA, for which three male colleagues at King's College London won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962.
Interview With an Author: TJ Klune
TJ Klune is a Lambda Literary Award-winning author and an ex-claims examiner for an insurance company.
Feels Like Home: "A Wanderer and Homeless Waif": Los Angeles’ Central Library - Part 1
This post is the first in a series of excerpts serializing the book Feels Like Home: Reflection
Celebrate International Zine Library Day
Independent, non-commercial, and often handmade magazines have been around long before 2011 when Alex Wrekk designated July as International Zine Month. A well-known zinester, Wrekk, also specified July 21 as International Zine Library Day.
Interview With an Author: Gretchen Berg
Gretchen Berg was born on the East Coast, raised in the Midwest, and spent a number of years in the Pacific Northwest. She has taught English in South Korea and in Northern Iraq and has traveled to all the other continents. A graduate of Iowa State University, she lives in Chicago, Illinois.