I’m not afraid to toot my own horn - Valentine’s Day went particularly well in my household this year. In the absence of roses, chocolates, jewelry, or even a simple card (gasp!), I pulled it off bigger and better than ever before. V Day 2010 required more work than usual, but it was worth...

Ever come across something that harkens back to your youth?  I’m sure you have at some point.  One day, as I’m rummaging through stuff at a friend’s house, I came across this.  I saw the words “indie rock coloring book” and was immediately hooked.  Like a little kid,...

Last Summer, I recommended the second book by New York writer Malcolm Gladwell, titled Blink. Before Gladwell published his three best-selling non-fiction works, he reported for the Washington Post and then, in 1996, began writing essays for The New Yorker. A few months ago, Gladwell released a selection...

I can still recall walking by the magazine section of my local supermarket in the Summer of 2004 and noticing a bright red magazine cover featuring Mr. Incredible from Pixar’s The Incredibles. At the time I rarely looked at, much less bought, magazines. But I was a budding cinephile with a specific...

Of all the places one might be ’sold’ on the necessity of reading a book, it was at a rough-and-tumble bachelor party that a friend of mine convinced me that I simply couldn’t do anything else until I had read C.S. Lewis’ sci-fi classics, The Space Trilogy. With blood-shot eyes...

Being in graduate school, I have a fair share of “required” reading on my plate at any given time. My pleasure reading, then, usually takes the form of some combination of Wired magazine, various film blogs, and ESPN.com. I enjoy following several regular columnists on ESPN, including Bill...

As his list of important works continues to grow, James Loewen is making a name for himself among America’s reading community as something of a naughty historian. A frequent contributor to The History Channel’s History magazine and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont, he...

In this day and age of camera phones and social networking sites, it is nearly impossible to maintain anonymity. This fact rings especially true for any person of public notoriety - actors, models, writers, and artists. But one man has managed to overcome this difficult task whilst displaying his artwork...

“If you are unwilling to have your christianity seriously examined, do not read beyond this page. Give this book to Goodwill immediately! Spare yourself the trouble of having your christian life turned upside down. However, if you choose to ‘take the red pill’ and be shown ‘how...

No coffee table is complete without a book, right?  Most likely, you want multiple books to finish off that otherwise boring table in the middle of your living room.  Typically, your personality influences the books you choose to display.  I think you can tell a lot about a person by the books they...