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04/30/2026

Yesssssss

04/11/2026

When I was 14 my aunt gave me 3 Vonnegut novels and I haven’t been the same.

Kurt Vonnegut died on this day in 2007.

"Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created."

03/28/2026

Jack Kerouac designed this cover for his novel On The Road and sent it to his publisher, AA Wyn, five years before the book would see publication. He had felt the cover for his first novel, The Town and The City, was, in his opinion, as you can see in the note at top right, “as dull as the title and the photo backflap.”

Kerouac originally published that book under the name John Kerouac and you can see here he initially planned to carry on that way. When On The Road did finally materialize, launching Kerouac into the literary fame he would come to both relish and decry, he had decided to go with Jack Kerouac and the cover looked nothing like his vision.

Instead, it featured a more subtle, stylized design of mostly black with a small abstract cityscape of sorts sat in the middle, the title of kilter as if written on a faulty typewriter while sitting shotgun in a “borrowed” car.

02/07/2026

And cheaper than diamonds too

12/19/2025

Very avant garde.

Unconventional Director Sets Shakespeare Play In Time, Place Shakespeare Intended https://theonion.com/unconventional-director-sets-shakespeare-play-in-time-1819569151/

12/03/2025

12/03/2025

10/10/2025

Be prepared, stay composed, and make an undeniable, bipartisan argument about why book bans in any form are a poor policy choice.

08/30/2025

How many have been banned?

More than 1,100 of you wrote to tell us about the books that broadened your horizons, that you kept through every move, that inspired you to become English majors, librarians, writers and teachers.