By the end of the day today my classroom was totally and completely infested... with Gregors from The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka! For th...

[ Crappy Instagram picture ] Last night I once again made the 60 mile drive out to LA to see an author talk- this time Junot Diaz, auth...

I'm a sucker for first time novelists, but I'm also an admittedly harsh critic of their follow up works. If the first novel is desc...

I'm in love with Tecumseh Sparrow Spivet. The irony/hypocrisy of this post is that it follows one I recently wrote about it not being n...

When you hear most authors discuss what goes into their novels, you hear the measurement of time "years" being used. They draft, t...

My students are finishing up Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury this week and I gave them an assignment with some drawing components. I was ver...