James knocks this post out of the park, so to speak.

Charles Gustine tackles one of last year's most self-reflexive rom-coms, "Friends WIth Benefits."

Charles introduces a new column, The Love Connection.

Once or twice a week, people ask me for my life story. I think I can sum it up rather nicely by this point. College Grad. Likes Books a Lot.

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The myth of the eight-hour sleep

Is so called "middle-of-the-night-insomnia" a clue to how we should be sleeping? In this BBC article, scientists and historians explore how the eight-hour sleep cycle may be an unnatural and fairly recent cultural development.

Tupelo Hassman becomes Miss Bennett

Tupelo Hassman writes on the Office of Letters and Light (The organization behind NaNoWriMo)'s blog. She's kind of awesome, and I can't wait to sink my little paws into "Girlchild." This is her talking about it!

The blog I found this on is run by an organization that I keep pretty close to my heart, and its mission, I feel, is starting to make waves. Write 50K in 30 days, edit later, and get it published. That is definitely resonating. Water for Elephants, which was released in movies last year, is based on a novel originally written during National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, and became a bestseller. and more people, more talented people are signing up every year.