Yesterday, we came across this awesome piece that Book Riot did of 5 classic books with awful original titles (CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT FAULKNER'S THE SOU...
Will 21st century authors produce any classics? As the number of books of fiction produced each year approaches staggering numbers, classics bookshelves must find themselves frustrated in their search for the needle in the proverbial haystack.
I'm issuing a challenge to readers for the new year: for every new book that you read this year, read (or-re-read) a classic book. I am going to attempt to undertake this challenge myself.
A grand adventure with wonderfully spunky characters set in an alternate Victorian world, I reread The Wolves of Willoughby Chase recently and can say that it is as marvelous as ever.
People often speak of Cather's story about Jim Burden and his friendship with his childhood playmate Antonia as one of our great American novels
No matter how avid of a reader you are, it'd be impossible to read everything. As NPR culture blogger Linda Holmes says, "The vast majority of the wor...
Great literature, because it asks big questions and communicates big ideas, stays relevant, even if it is very old. You will be richer, wiser, and smarter if you make classic literature a regular part of your life.
A great title is an art form unto itself. Indeed, a great title does not necessarily signify a great book and vice versa.
There's a lot of red tape to cut through before completely committing to a relationship: There's the ex talk, the meeting of the parents, and if you'r...
What happens when this recent kindergarten graduate judges a book by its cover? Here are the results.
Last week we unveiled to the world our next book choice for the Huffington Post Book Club. Our readers rallied and voted on four choices we eagerly pi...
Our next HuffPost Book Club pick is The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. This was my pick, and I am just thrilled that you voted it into the majority!
As we near the end of The Night Circus, we're looking forward to our next HuffPost Book Club reading selection. We've done a handful of new books, bot...
After we saw that "Jane Eyre" is getting revamped with lots and lots of steamy sex scenes (for the novel "Jane Eyre Laid Bare"), that got us thinking:...
Could this be the birth of a new literary genre? And if so, what would it be called: Pup-lit, Puppantic, Puppiction? There are puppets on Sesame Street and puppets in the theater, but rarely do they find their way into novels.
The following is an excerpt from Stuff Every American Should Know[Quirk Books, $9.95] by Joseph D’Agnese and Denise Kiernan. Most of us read fo...
Now, you might ask: What does the number of times the word "because" appears in a given work tell us about whether or not an author was influenced by classic literature? Nothing. The conclusions presented in the paper would be laughable -- if they weren't being taken seriously.
It's what we sort of know that's really scary: the gaping, haunting silence before somebody shouts boo, but also the silence that comes when we are about to shout boo at someone else.
How The Heather Looks by Joan Bodger delivers us from our daily routine to the magical world of English children's literature.
The Count returned last night in a foul mood, his attempt to acquire stamps foiled because the village post office closed before dark. "Fools!" he raged. "Eliminating evening hours -- I shall make them pay!"
Our classrooms are filled with all sorts of readers and need to be filled with all sorts of books, all sorts of writers, and all sorts of reading experiences.
Imagine transforming an entire novel into one page. No longer hidden in your book shelf, now you can display and even read the entire story straigh...
As a teen and young adult, I managed to polish off some famous books. But, for various reasons, other renowned novels remained tantalizingly in my future.
If you're on a spiritual quest to find your SELF, or even if you're not, you might enjoy reading Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha.
How can Americans think their way out of the current economic crisis? According to Lisa New, professor of English at Harvard University, Americans oug...
