I've never seen "Pulp Fiction" (1994). I know. I'll get around to it eventually. But I have read pulp fiction or at least a novel heavily inspired by it: Anna Dorn's most recent release, "Perfume &...

I hail from California, so October is an exciting month for me — the leaves don’t fall back home! My single qualm with this month is that it’s synonymous with midterm season; if you had no time to...

Did you know that the guy who wrote The Piña Colada Song is also a best-selling author? Well, me neither, until I happened to pick up Rupert Holmes' book in a Barnes & Noble, lured in by the shiny...

I've decided that the "Book Review" tag on The Lafayette's website needs to diversify its ratings a bit more. It's book "review," not book "recommendation," after all – not that there wasn't the occasional...

Ah, summer. A season free of school, of homework, of books. Unless you’re me. Or Maddie. Or someone who just loves to read. I read a lot of nonfiction books this summer without meaning to. I think...