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A resident of Davis, California, Matt Biers-Ariel is a public school English teacher. The Bar Mitzvah and the Beast:... Read More

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Seventy thousand authors defied the vanity press stigma last year and launched their titles online as print-on-demand... Read More

Why does Interlink Books exist? Frustration is the mother of all inspirations. Back in 1987, I was a young, angry... Read More

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I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got... Read More

Good parents want what’s best for their children—and, by extension, for themselves. After two decades of the “too... Read More

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China looms large, indeed. The economic and political influence it wields on global affairs—from earthborn dwellings... Read More

Editor’s Note: Nancy Pearl and I recently chatted about the future of her profession, the newly launched Book Lust... Read More