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Lay It Down

People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

“I Am The One Who Types”: On Breaking Bad and Shaping Art

Bryan Cranston’s portrayal of Walter White in Breaking Bad may have been masterful, but his character's fate was always in the hands of writer-showrunner Vince Gilligan. Then again, the show's audience probably had something to say about it, too.

How to Guzzle Books Like Wine

In Jonathan Franzen’s view, e-readers will disrupt the permanence of books, with dire consequences for human society. A Czech novelist would recommend that he calm down and have a drink.

Scaring Kids

Macabre books for young adults—the kind popularized by the unsurpassed Roald Dahl—deliver chills to young readers without alarming their parents, or whacking them over the head with morals. This way, they teach kids the joys of reading.