Welcome to Clementine’s Weekly Reading Series, where Clem the hedgehog talks about whatever she is currently reading. This week: Paris, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down by Rosecrans Baldwin.
Read MoreConsidering Skyfall and the recent MoMA retrospective 50 Years of James Bond, I was pretty stoked to pick up Ian McEwan's Sweet Tooth. It's ostensibly a spy novel, but the book's layered betrayal and intrigue originate less from espionage than the sticky reality of love.
Read MoreThe Morning News has decided to play Reading Roulette with six Russian authors, shooting a new one into the American blogosphere each month. Fourth up is Olga Slavnikova and her Slavic satire, "A Light Head."
Read MoreThis year, I'm with the amateurs. I'm going to write 50,000 words in one month, and all the bad writing advice and literary snobbiness in the entire Internet isn't going to stop me. Here's how I'm going to do it.
Welcome to Clementine’s Weekly Reading Series, where Clem the hedgehog talks about whatever she is currently reading. This week: The Tao of Wu by The RZA.
Read MoreIf brevity is truly the soul of wit, then your Twitter feed is the Algonquin round table of today's digital Dorothy Parkers and Ogden Nashes. Here's a selection of our favorite tweets from the week; nominate yours by submitting to @blackballoonpub with #twitwit.
Read MoreIt’s no secret that I’m obsessed by book design. Emilia Terragni wrote a piece on the subject last week, but there's a lot more to say about well-designed books and their power to fulfill and confound our expectations. Check out these five pairings and you'll see what I mean.
Read MoreWhat was it like breaking into the "boy's club" of cartoonists at Rhode Island School of Design and the New Yorker?
Read MoreWell, actually, I had more of a struggle at RISD then I did in New York. In many ways — I've had this conversation with my daughter who goes to school for liberal arts — there are really great things you learn at art school and one of them is that you're not the only talented person.
It's been over a decade since the last Baby-sitters Club installment came out, but the fandom lives on. "Snark" communities analyze the books into harsh oblivion, Ann M. Martin has over 12k likes on Facebook, and people are still speculating where the sitters are today.
But the BSC's biggest impact can be seen, surprisingly, in fashion blogs. We've matched the club's members with their blogger progeny, and it's hard to deny: Stoneybrook style is still alive and well.
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