When I picked up Casey McQuiston's debut novel, “Red, White & Royal Blue,” from the League City, Texas, Barnes & Noble in the summer of 2019, I knew it was going to be one of my favorite books. It...

Every summer, my sister and I used to take weekly trips to our local library. Armed with a large tote bag and an umbrella for the predictable afternoon thunderstorms, we walked about half a mile in the...

I remember the first time I heard a vinyl record play. It was an album from my late grandfather’s collection — a cardboard box my dad and I found cleaning out the garage one summer. Filled with dusty...

In April, bestselling and award-winning author Becky Albertalli was kind enough to talk to me about good faith in queer literature. On Wednesday, she agreed to speak to me about another topic of discourse:...

On Sunday, I went to the Barnes & Noble in League City, Texas for the first time in six months. Aside from an expanded science-fiction section, the store was exactly as I remembered it: the nonfiction...