Over our 30 years, we have featured many essays on all manner of book and community related matters. Here is a sellection of our favorites culled from Kenny's Publishers Weekly Shelftalker column, his Daily Bulldog Words on Words column, and DDG newsletter archives.
- The Real Reason Rothfuss' Kingkiller 3 Is Not Here Yet
- A Letter of Apology From The State of Maine to Lev Grossman
- How To Fail in Literature: Revisted
- The Ultimate Binge Read
- On Not Reading Thomas Pynchon
- A Rose By Any Other Name
- The Gerbil Killer
- John D. Rockefeller Speaks Out on the Amazon-Hachette Controversy
- A Surprising Suitor For The Amazon II Headquarters
- Valentines For Blobfish Contest
- The Valentines For Blobfish Awards
- Margaux DePue vs. Otto Von Bismarck: Summer Reading Smackdown
- Amy Graham vs. Genghis Kahn: Digital Revolution Smackdown
- The PLL word game contest
- DDG’s Pretty Little Liars Word Game Contest results
- Ebooks, Borders, and Industry Changes
- An Interview With the Year 2015
- Jules Verne vs. Reid Brechner; Future Predicition Smackdown
- Compelling Contest
- Look more argumentative than Christopher Hitchens contest
- The Hanukkah Heat Contest
- The Hanukkah Contest Results
- Summer reveals her Reading List!
- Modern Poetry Smackdown: Stour of the Intellectual Giants
- Famous First Sentences With Gelt
- The Gelt Contest Winners Are Revealed
- A Giant Earmuff Launch
- The Dictionary of Poetry Blurb Terms
- Stocking Stuffer of the Year Award 2014
- Common Core: If the Common Core fails, what comes next?
- Conquering Saunterer Smackdown: Henry David Thoreau versus Noelle Dubay
- Summer’s reading list
- Ultimate YA Definition Contest
- Ultimate YA Definition
- Stocking Stuffer of the Year Award 2013
- Mission Accomplished with Chris Van Dusen
- Putting Tintin in Historical Perspective
- Anatomy of a Great Community Read Launch
- An Interview WIth Spring 2015
- Summer's Reading List 2015
- Autumn's Unveil's Her Top Fall Picks
- The Early Bird Report