The Company of Strangers Who Read the Same Book
When you finish a book alone, your interpretation becomes the interpretation. You never discover what you missed. A monthly book club shatters that certainty. Someone else read the same words and saw something entirely different. They caught the clue you overlooked, hated the character you loved, noticed the parallel you missed. On the friction of other minds, the discipline of deadlines, and why books are better when you have someone to fight with about them.
Follow the Dollar: Where Your Book Money Really Goes
You know that feeling when you buy a book? That little thrill of anticipation, knowing a new story or idea is about to become part of your life? Well, here’s something that might give you an even better feeling: understanding exactly where your money goes after you click “purchase” or hand over your card at […]
The Stories of Tomorrow
There’s something quietly miraculous about a new book sitting on a shelf. Someone, a person you’ve never met, spent months, perhaps years, hunched over a keyboard or notebook, pouring themselves into sentences they weren’t certain anyone would read. They revised until their eyes blurred. They doubted. They persisted regardless. And now here it sits: bound, […]