Quote of the Week
"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the...
Quote of the Week
Ever wonder what it takes to get hired at a place like Google? You think it has to be all about resume-- good grades, student government position, fraternity/sorority alumni, right? Well, you'd be wrong. At Google, it isn't about the obvious "emergent" leadership...
Quote of the Week
In the spirit of this Winter Olympics season, our quote of the week embodies not only what it means to be an Olympian but what it takes to be successful in general. "Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records." -William Arthur Ward Also,...
Quote of the Week
Our very favorite children's books left an irreversible impression on our childhoods and on our lives. Some of our most cherished storybook characters are so real and palpable in our memory that it feels as if we were introduced to them yesterday. Beyond being...
Quote of the Week: Robin Desser, Maxwell E. Perkins Prize Winner
“So you don’t exactly have rules or a guidebook when you set out to become a fiction editor. You learn by just doing it. You start at the bottom and you teach yourself by reading, reading—reading the dead and the living. You read the dazzlingly good and the really...
Quote of the Week
“Text is now a verb. More radically, a search engine is not an engine. A platform is not a platform. A bookmark is not a bookmark because an e-book is not a book. Reading a book is the essence of interactivity, bringing sentences to life in the mind.” - E.L....