The Literary Man in Óbidos is a former convent turned hotel with nearly 100,000 books lining every hallway — and an entire medieval town that's just as obsessed with reading as it is.
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke is the most unique thing you will read all year... maybe in the last decade. Read my review and find out why I gave the debut novel 5/5 stars.
Poets have been chasing patrons, prizes, teaching gigs, and actual paychecks for centuries. So can poetry still be a profession, or has “working poet” always come with an asterisk?
Kim Young-jun quit a career forecasting stocks to master a nearly extinct Korean art form, and ended up decorating everything from Bill Gates’ Xbox to a chair made for the Pope.
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