It’s that time of year again. The dog days of 2012 are quickly dwindling with 2013 waiting in the wings. And the critics are beginning to look back at the past year to see what films, music and books made a deep, lasting impression. And comics and graphic novels are getting more and more acknowledgment   Read More …

Great writers find inspiration from any number of sources – music, visual art, movies and, of course, in the pages of books pulsing with narrative possibilities. Pultizer Prize-winning writer Junot Diaz is no exception. Best-known for the critically acclaimed and award-winning 2007 novel The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the 1996 short-story collection,   Read More …