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Nightstand Reads: Django Wexler, author of ‘The Forbidden Library,’ shares what he’s reading
We are thrilled to have local author Django Wexler, author of The Forbidden Library (and oh, do we ever love this one!), as our guest blogger today. We recommend it for fans of Inkheart by Cornelia Funk and Coraline by Neil Gaiman. You’ll also want to check out his adult debut, The Thousand Names (2013). We asked Mr.… Continue reading
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Nightstand Reads: Matthew Amster-Burton
When I’m sick, sad, or don’t know what to eat for lunch, I always turn to Asian food for comfort. Usually it’s some kind of spicy noodles, like pad Thai or the Tetsu Hell Fire dipping ramen at Samurai noodle, a dish you can’t eat without looking like a barbarian. Similarly, when I wander into… Continue reading
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Nightstand Reads: Greg Atkinson
As a food writer, I use words and letters almost without thinking. Just as whisks, rolling pins, pots and pans are incidental to the actual foodstuffs with which they interface, so words and letters, paragraphs and sentences are just a means to an end. The end is whatever meaning I hope they will eventually convey… Continue reading