Picking a travel buddy is just as important as picking a roommate: you’re going to be stuck with them, probably one on one, for long periods of time, so you’d better make sure you choose someone you’re not going to regret. You’ve got to ask the big questions: will they be fun to be around? Do […]

Dear Literary Lady, My mother and I both love to read, but it’s difficult to share our reading experiences with each other because we speak different languages. My mother doesn’t speak English fluently and I don’t speak her native language fluently. How do we overcome the language barrier to share more books with each other? –M.L., […]

There’s nothing better than a good tell-all memoir…except, of course, a tell-all memoir from someone whose past, present, and future we’ll never get to dig into. In other words, there’s nothing our fiction-obsessed souls crave more than to read every last detail about the lives of some of our favorite fictional characters. What were they thinking? What […]

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries proved classics could be made fresh if you took your heroine out of a book and put her in front of a video camera. Its blend of wit, heart, and clever transformations of Pride and Prejudice‘s classic arc made for an entirely new story, one of the best examples of this growing medium. […]