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Iseult Gillespie

Why should you read Sylvia Plath?

Posted Mar 2019
4:01

Ayana Jamieson and Moya Bailey

Why should you read sci-fi superstar Octavia E. Butler?

Posted Feb 2019
5:38

Ilan Stavans

Why should you read "Don Quixote"?

Posted Feb 2019
3:56

Iseult Gillespie

Why should you read Flannery O'Connor?

Posted Feb 2019
4:35

Iseult Gillespie

Why should you read Shakespeare's "The Tempest"?

Posted Feb 2019
4:22

Iseult Gillespie

Why should you read "Fahrenheit 451"?

Posted Jan 2019
4:26

Iseult Gillespie

Why should you read "A Midsummer Night's Dream?"

Posted Dec 2018
5:04

Mia Nacamulli

Why should you read Kurt Vonnegut?

Posted Nov 2018
13:53

Dawn Wacek

A librarian's case against overdue book fines

Posted Nov 2018
12:51

G. Willow Wilson

The story behind Marvel's Muslim-American superheroine

Posted Nov 2018
4:55

Leonora Neville

The princess who rewrote history

Posted Oct 2018
5:03

Iseult Gillespie

Why should you read "Waiting for Godot"?

Posted Oct 2018
4:30

Iseult Gillespie

Everything you need to know to read "The Canterbury Tales"

Posted Oct 2018
4:53

Scott Peeples

Why should you read Edgar Allan Poe?

Posted Sep 2018
5:27

Francisco Díez-Buzo

Why should you read "One Hundred Years of Solitude"?

Posted Aug 2018
4:59

Elizabeth Cox

What really happened to the Library of Alexandria?

Posted Aug 2018
10:36

Gene Luen Yang

Comics belong in the classroom

Posted May 2018
12:08

Juliane Gallina

A library of minds

Posted Feb 2018
7:57

Tomas Elemans

The inspiring truth in fiction

Posted Jan 2018
5:03

Iseult Gillespie

Why should you read Charles Dickens?

Posted Dec 2017
12:15

Martina Flor

The secret language of letter design

Posted Dec 2017
15:55

Anne Lamott

12 truths I learned from life and writing

Posted Jun 2017
4:22

Stephen Bax

The world's most mysterious book

Posted May 2017
4:23

Chand John

What's the fastest way to alphabetize your bookshelf?

Posted Nov 2016
13:21

Oded Shoseyov

How we're harnessing nature's hidden superpowers

Posted Sep 2016
12:58

Lidia Yuknavitch

The beauty of being a misfit

Posted May 2016
11:10

Aditi Gupta

A taboo-free way to talk about periods

Posted Apr 2016
6:01

Joshua Prager

Wisdom from great writers on every year of life

Posted Apr 2016
12:07

Gregory Heyworth

How I'm discovering the secrets of ancient texts

Posted Feb 2016
12:03

Ann Morgan

My year reading a book from every country in the world

Posted Nov 2015
18:57

Chip Kidd

The art of first impressions — in design and life

Posted Jun 2015
6:06

Brian Dettmer

Old books reborn as art

Posted Feb 2015
16:59

Mac Barnett

Why a good book is a secret door

Posted Sep 2014
5:24

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Why lunch ladies are heroes

Posted Aug 2014
5:03

Kate Messner

How to build a fictional world

Posted Jan 2014
10:20

Frederic Kaplan

How to build an information time machine

Posted Jan 2014