Edgar Wallace wrote 175 novels, but none had a better title than The Fellowship of the Frog.

Gladwell’s Outliers is at parts ridiculous and at parts infuriating.

How do you name a play Murder in the Cathedral and still make it boring? Ask T. S. Eliot.

This week, September 27-October 4, marks the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week, which has celebrated “the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular” since 1982. Books are often, but not always, challenged for such “valid” reasons as protecting children from inappropriate material. But this doesn’t mean that banning books, for whatever reason, is ever a good idea and the ALA maintains …

Kids, don’t write these at home!
The “embedded-clauses-are-all-the-rage” opening:
“He, even though the sex change was far from final, so in fact he was still she, albeit anatomically it was difficult to spot the difference, woke, or would have, but his eyelids felt like they had been glued shut with the kind of glue that smells bad and tastes even worse, and since he had no desire to wake up either, he soon went back to sleep, …