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The Em Dash: A Brief—Yet Important—History
The em dash is 500 years old. Older than your grandmother's grandmother's punctuation opinions. So the next time you see a piece of prose riddled with [...]
Dua Lipa’s Library of Banned Books: Inside the Manifesto Library in Porto
There's a particular kind of irony in hiding a library. Not locking it, not guarding it, just tucking it away so quietly that even the staff [...]
10 Books That Feel Like a Slow Sunday Morning
There's a very specific kind of reading that only works on a Sunday morning. Not the reading you do to finish something, or to impress someone [...]
20 Banned Books That Changed the World
When a book gets banned, it's rarely about the book itself. It's about the silencing of a voice sometimes too powerful for the world. The question [...]
Unpopular Bookish Opinions We’re Willing to Fight About
Every reader has a hill they'll die on. Here are ours. Pull up a chair, pour some chai, and disagree with us in the comments, that's [...]
The Psychology of the TBR Pile — Why We Still Buy Books We Never Read
Has the pile of unread books on your shelf been growing slowly? Have you been feeding it generously every now and then until it has outgrown [...]
What Should You Watch Next Based on Your Favourite 2000s-2010s Bollywood Movie?
There's a particular kind of nostalgia that only a certain decade of Bollywood can trigger. You know the one. Shah Rukh Khan running across the streets [...]
What Should You Read Next Based on the Movie You Last Watched?
You know that feeling right after the credits roll, when a movie has wrecked you, delighted you, or just refused to leave your head, and [...]
Self vs Traditional Publishing: How to Know Which Path Is Right for You
Now that you've written a book, you need to make a decision which trips up most authors at some point: self-publish, or run after the Big [...]
The World Book Fair: The Ultimate Bookish Pilgrimage
It is chaotic. It is crowded. It is miles of towering shelves, endless corridors of stories, and an absolute paradise for book lovers. Courtesy: Wikipedia [...]
Inside the Pune Book Festival: Nine Days at Fergusson Ground
Courtesy: The Times of India Every December, a stretch of open ground near Fergusson College turns into something the rest of the year [...]
10 Self-Publishing Myths That Are Stopping First-Time Authors From Starting
Have you fallen prey to the self-publishing myths? Do you believe that if you're self-published, you're less talented, less respected, desperate, or basically not a "real" [...]
The Self-Publishing Process: A Step-by-Step Guide for First-Time Authors
"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart." — Rabindranath Tagore Thinking about self-publishing your first book but not sure where to start? Here's exactly what [...]
