Everyone knows that textbooks are supposed to be bland and boring; something that all school-aged children are forced to lug around in backpacks and wearily heft onto desktops as the students slump into their seats.
Most...
My kids and I went on an educational vacation to Austin, Texas some years ago. Our primary objective was to visit the Harry Ransom Center to view their copy of the Gutenberg Bible. At the...
When it comes to publishing anything, your title (or headline) is everything. Maybe that's what some of these authors were thinking -- "let me grab readers with a really whack title!". Or maybe they were...
In all of it's satirical glory, Alec Baldwin and Kurt Anderson are teaming up to write “You Can’t Spell America Without Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year as President Donald J....
J.K. Rowling and Piers Morgan have been battling it out on social media for a while. They have fought over all sorts of things including Trump. As it was Valentine's Day, Rowling tweeted the following:
https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/831511642311688193
Well it seems the...
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Welcome everyone to The Liberal Conservative. I am your host, Jonathan Lenhardt. What I have in store for you fine people today is pretty special. We at Liberal America were afforded an excellent...
30 years ago, Tony Schwartz agreed to be the ghostwriter for Donald Trump's book The Art of the Deal, and he now says he deeply regrets that because he fears may have helped Trump become president....
I LOVE pinup and I'm actually an avid collector. But who knew "sexy Thanksgiving" was a thing? The explanation is that these were done as a practical matter. Most pinup was done for calendars and...
What do you do if you've just written this scathing tell-all book about a dysfunctional presidential administration and a lawyer representing the sitting President of the United States demands your publisher withhold releasing it?
If the...
What would those closest to you say was the purpose of your life?
Can satan, the devil, or evil come into the world through a coloring book?
Ann Coulter has to be a special kind of crazy. She is apparently looking back on her Trump fanaticism and thinking, "Hey, I could top that."
This is the same right-wing commentator who saw the violence occurring at Trump's...
OMG I'm growing weary of having to write so much about the crazy stuff Donald Trump is saying and doing. That said, some of the ideas he's proposing is scary stuff and it MUST be...
As a kid growing up in a small town in rural Arkansas, I was blessed to live within walking distance of a truly awesome small library. I would have loved having online access to all...
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture report isn’t exactly pleasure reading. It outlines how the CIA developed and deployed a system of black sites around the world to torture people implicated in terrorism during the George...
Spanish Fort High School in Alabama has put some very controversial books on its Advanced Placement summer reading list. The book is just chock full of right-wing propaganda.
Some of the book titles are:
Liberalism is...
Earlier this year, we started seeing a fun meme crossing our Facebook timelines: "List 10 books that have stayed with you."
It was a fun meme, but it went to a whole new level when a...
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To support Small Business Saturday, Pres. Obama has made a tradition...
Marge Harlan, a retired psychologist and school teacher, started a black history library in a town called Sedalia, Missouri. There are lots of books and wall displays covering the Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement, and more....
Previously we reported that the Caddo Parrish Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC) had declared a war on reading by determining that a Little Free Library set up in the front yard of Ricky and Teresa Edgerton...
