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Still, none post it so well as Murder Must Advertise, a detective fiction that perfectly incorporates all that is best about Sayers.

Social distancing is living the life of Lizzie Bennett: we keep respectful distances,

You have probably been in that classroom where you were introduced to Homer, in all of five seconds. You skip over him

I ask him who he reads, he says he doesn’t. I ask him about books in his library, he looks at me confused, for he doesn’t have a library.

I’m sure that sometime during your day, as you check your social media profiles, get lost in the internet world, and contemplate what to

Ah, books. We read them a lot here at Pens and Words. Sometimes we read them on the weekends to pass the time. Sometimes we read them be...

“Click the banner for 30 minutes of uninterrupted listening.” “We’re sorry, your free trial has expired. Click here for more information.”

Being a writer is not easy. All those words you have to write. Then they have to make sense.

How Writing Caused A Toilet Paper Shortage (Tolkien was right) JRR Tolkien, a guy who wrote a book a long time ago, famously wrote: “If m...

GTA V. The Sims 4. The Witcher 3. I am going to hope you know what those things are and move on. I’m fairly certain there is a book review

Everyone’s favorite satirist, playwright, and, uh…epigram-er…was Irish. And he wrote a blistering critique of the Anglo-American

St. Patty’s Day is among us. Get out the bagpipes. Start river dancing. And wonder why if they can turn the river green for one day, why can

Most authors, from those who post short poems on Instagram, to those who stow away their pieces for no one to see, to the many in between

I have a bone to pick with the literary community. To those who identify themselves as readers. Who take photos of their favorite books

We all thought memes were “just jokes.” Well, here are some memes that make solid points about some of the most important works

I was talking to my buddy the other day and he brought up how he would allow kids to write with their music on. He is a teacher.

As the rest of literature talks of bestsellers and other recent news, I want to talk about a book from a hundred years ago.

Tupac’s wisdom is the basis of Angie Thomas’ powerhouse of a young adult novel, The Hate U Give—that hate is insipient, that directing it to

Have you heard, your favorite author left Facebook? “But Stephen King is not my favorite!” Way to miss the point, wise guy.

At a Bennington Writing Seminars panel, I once heard author Josh Weil joke that he’d never made his agent a cent because he wrote novellas.