There’s definitely a stigma attached to “Christian Lit” – to some people, the name of the genre suggests that these books are going to be preachy, moralizing, or evangelical. That’s why I stayed away from the genre for a long time, even though I consider myself both very religious and an omnivorous bookworm....
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I’m not really one for multicultural novels, nor coming-of-age stories; but my syllabus this semester says otherwise. I’m taking a class called Black British Women Writers (where “black” refers to any marginalized race), and one of the novels I’ve come across is the 1996 autobiography of Meera Syal called Anita and Me. I did...
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  The movie Fight Club, released in 1999, has become a cult classic; but what many people don’t know is that it was based on a book written four years earlier by Chuck Palahniuk. Palahniuk is a best-selling author who has written ten books since then, in addition to short fiction and screenplays. I...
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