ObservancesJune 14, 2026
National Proofreading Day promotes error-free writing, but real proofreading is bigger than typos. The dangerous errors aren't spelling mistakes, they're failures of logic and clarity. A look at what a true pass catches.
ObservancesJune 14, 2026
World Storytelling Day celebrates oral storytelling, the spoken kind, not just the written. That distinction matters: story runs through your whole life, not just your manuscript, and shapes how you understand everything.
ObservancesJune 14, 2026
National Library Week has celebrated libraries and librarians since 1958. I have a soft spot for it, because libraries are where both readers and writers are quietly made. A look at what we owe them.
ObservancesJune 14, 2026
Get Caught Reading Month has one simple idea: let people see you read. As reading becomes a private, invisible act, a case for making it visible again, for your own sake and for the culture of reading.
ObservancesJune 14, 2026
Jules Verne imagined submarines and space travel before either existed and is the second most translated author in history. On his birthday, the father of science fiction, reimagined from the inside.
ObservancesJune 14, 2026
Heinlein is one of science fiction's Big Three and the dean of the genre, author of Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. A look at his plot-driven fiction and the complicated love I hold…
ObservancesJune 14, 2026
Clarke gave us 2001, Childhood's End, and Rendezvous with Rama, and he conceived the communications satellite before it existed. One of the Big Three, and a master of hard science married to genuine wonder.
ObservancesJune 14, 2026
H.G. Wells founded the opposite half of science fiction from Verne. Where Verne loved the machine, Wells used the impossible to hold a mirror to humanity. A look at the divide that still runs through the genre.
ObservancesJune 14, 2026
Movie Theatre Day is April 23. The honest case for the movie theater, why streaming is killing it, and what still makes the big screen worth the ticket.
ObservancesJune 14, 2026
National Popcorn Day is January 19. The history of movie popcorn, why it is tied to film forever, and the revival theater that made it special.
ObservancesJune 14, 2026
National Film Day is March 30. Why film matters as an art form, what separates great movies from product, and what writers can learn from the best films.
ObservancesJune 14, 2026
National Cinema Day is a Saturday in late August with a few-dollar tickets nationwide. What the day is, why theaters created it, and how to make the most of it.
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