Read with MLC: Short Stories

Read with MLC: Short Stories

Welcome to May, and the fifth reading prompt for our 2024 Read With MLC reading challenge: read a short story collection. May is actually Short Story Month, and reading one is a great way to celebrate this brief but tantalizing literary form. Lauren Groff, guest judge...
Read with MLC: Celebrity Memoirs

Read with MLC: Celebrity Memoirs

Welcome to April, and the fourth reading prompt for our 2024 Read With MLC reading challenge: read a celebrity memoir. Is there anything more delicious than escaping your own life to peer into the intricacies of someone else’s? Affairs, addiction, divorce,...
Read with MLC: Graphic Nonfiction

Read with MLC: Graphic Nonfiction

Welcome to March and the third reading prompt of our 2024 Read with MLC challenge: read a work of graphic nonfiction. Nonfiction comics have been around for longer than you might think. Thomas Nast, who created political cartoons, started drawing as a teen in 1856....
Read with MLC: Reread a Book You Love

Read with MLC: Reread a Book You Love

Welcome to February and the second reading prompt of our 2024 Read with MLC challenge: reread a book you love. There’s something incredibly special about a book you enjoy so much that you want to reread it. Setting aside a wedge of time to experience something...
Read with MLC: Happy New Year!

Read with MLC: Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! There’s something about clearing out the holiday decorations and putting up a new calendar that makes anything and everything seem possible. Start exercising? You got this. Eat healthier? You can do it. Learn a new language? Research your roots?...